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Liberation, exodus, and prophetic justice rooted in the African American church tradition.
Key question: “How does this text speak to the experiences of suffering, hope, and liberation within the Black community?”
25,923 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens
In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day.
11/1 (1896): A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
4/22 (1944): World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
2/14 (1990): The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later becomes famous as Pale Blue Dot.
7/14 (1942): In the Wardha session of Congress, the "Quit India" resolution is approved, authorising Mahatma Gandhi to campaign for India's independence from Britain.
7/4 (2004): The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
4/1 (2001): Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
7/20 (2013): Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
7/14 (1865): The first ascent of the Matterhorn is completed by Edward Whymper and his party, four of whom die on the descent.