The stunning success of Lewis Sheafe’s evangelism during the summer of 1902 meant that Adventism’s first major racial crisis would come at the very moment of amazing opportunity in which the...

Developments placed the “living miracle” of interracial fellowship at the Adventist church in Washington, D.C. in serious jeopardy by 1901. Yet, core members of both races determined not to yield...

In his new-found zeal for preaching the “three angels’ messages,” Lewis C. Sheafe lost none of his passion for racial justice.

1919 stands midway between the point at which the church’s previously desultory work among black Americans gained focus and momentum in the mid-1890s through the southern initiative led by J....