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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?”
23,235 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
4/1 (1789): In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
If I walk in Autumn's even While the dead leaves pass, If I look on Spring's soft heaven,-- Something is not there which was Winter's wondrous frost and snow, Summer's clouds, where are they now?
10/31 (2014): During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California.
10/12 (1799): Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
4/9 (1959): Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
6/19 (1985): Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.
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.
4/9 (1989): Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
1/1 (1834): Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.