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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?”
24,094 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens
11/1 (1896): A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
12/7 (1965): Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.
1/15 (1975): The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
12/25 (1815): The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
8/6 (2001): Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
A master potter takes a lump of clay and shapes it with careful hands. The clay must be soft and pliable to be molded. Sometimes the potter must apply pressure, sometimes gentle touches. The clay that resists the potter's hands...
12/25 (508): Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius.
11/22 (1943): Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.