Racial Divides in the Seventh-day Adventist Church

My primary area of social action involvement is human trafficking. As the research coordinator at a Christian nonprofit that works against trafficking in Nepal, I still find myself continually learning. I also work in media, where I report on various peace and justice topics along with other less controversial material. When working on these stories, I struggle because I have so much to learn about each topic, not to mention the complexity of themes at their intersections. On any given issue I am thankful for the patient people who help me to see the issues more deeply and broadly. Learning takes humility, an admission that I know I don’t yet have complete insight.

This week alone I worked on stories relating to LGBT youth and racial divides in Adventism, both areas in which I am not an expert. I use that as a preface to say I am still…