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News: History

Written By: Benjamin Baker, Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists

April 13, 2021

Frederika House Sisley (1852–1934) —...
Frederika House Sisley was the youngest person ever elected as a General Conference officer and one of only three women to serve as a GC treasurer.
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Written By: Ronald Lawson

March 29, 2021

The Adventist Church and Its LGBT...
In this four-part series for Spectrum, Adventist sociologist Ronald Lawson explores the historical and current relationship between the Adventist...
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Written By: Ronald Lawson

March 26, 2021

The Adventist Church and Its LGBT...
In this four-part series for Spectrum, Adventist sociologist Ronald Lawson explores the historical and current relationship between the Adventist...
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Written By: Ronald Lawson

March 22, 2021

The Adventist Church and Its LGBT...
In this four-part series for Spectrum, Adventist sociologist Ronald Lawson explores the historical and current relationship between the Adventist...
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Written By: Ronald Lawson

March 19, 2021

The Adventist Church and Its LGBT...
In this four-part series for Spectrum, Adventist sociologist Ronald Lawson explores the historical and current relationship between the Adventist...
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Written By: Benjamin Baker, Douglas Morgan, Kevin M. Burton

March 19, 2021

“Unbounded Regard”: Frederick Douglass...
The great American Frederick Douglass maintained a close relationship with Adventists throughout his fascinating and eventful life.
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Written By: DeWitt S. Williams

February 26, 2021

Changes Agents: The Lay Movement that...
Change Agents tells the story of this movement and the Black lay members, with women in the forefront, who confronted the denomination and...
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Written By: Benjamin Baker

February 26, 2021

A Seated Stand — Facing Racial...
This is the final installment in the series highlighting the experiences of three African American Adventists who faced racial injustice in America...
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Written By: Benjamin Baker

February 19, 2021

A Black Adventist in the Supreme Court...
No sooner had the Black lawyer settled into this seat when the conductor, a white man, appeared before him, gruffly informing him that he had to move...
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Written By: Benjamin Baker

February 05, 2021

Beaten in the Year of the Advent —...
Jabez Campbell viewed the racist brutality that he endured on the train in light of Christ’s second coming. At the time the incident occurred in...
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