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God's preferential option for the poor and oppressed, with salvation as liberation from all forms of oppression.
Key question: “How does the Gospel liberate the oppressed and challenge unjust structures in society?”
25,092 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
As o'er the cold sepulchral stone Some _name_ arrests the passer-by; Thus, when thou view'st this page alone, May _mine_ attract thy pensive eye!
5/8 (1976): The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1/15 (2005): ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
2/14 (1556): Having been declared a heretic and laicized by Pope Paul IV on 4 December 1555, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is publicly defrocked at Christ Church Cathedral.
7/20 (1960): The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
6/19 (1978): Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
10/31 (1918): World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
2/12 (1404): The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen-Geist Spital in Vienna.
President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.