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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?”
24,136 sermon illustrations through the Black Church Tradition lens
12/25 (1814): Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
12/25 (1000): The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
2/12 (2001): NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
1/1 (2011): A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
An eagle uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and uses the current of the storm to soar above it. The eagle does not fear the storm; it uses it.
11/9 (1935): The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
11/11 (1865): Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.