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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?”
23,197 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
7/4 (2009): The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
4/9 (2017): The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
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.
6/19 (1978): Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
1/15 (2005): ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
6/19 (1785): The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.
3/15 (1927): The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
11/1 (1976): Burundian president Michel Micombero is deposed in a bloodless military coup d'état by deputy Jean-Baptiste Bagaza.