tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-86840390276192012 2011-12-16T19:39:38-05:00 L. C. Sheafe and the rise of Adventism among African Americans TypePad LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmericahttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341e3ff253ef01675edc856c970b 2011-12-16T19:39:38-05:00 2011-12-16T19:39:38-05:00

The Office of Archives and Statistics at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists makes available a phenomenal wealth of full-text historical sources online. Long-time director Bert Haloviak initiated the service several years ago and oversaw steady expansion its offerings, and his successor, Dr. David Trim, is carrying it forward. via...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmerica/~4/zAdF7SLRoaQ" height="1" width="1"/>

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Sheafe's fiery denunciation of the Republican party in 1895 for its betrayal of black Americans during the decades following Civil War not only caused a stir in Ohio, but also sent shock waves further south.... more<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmerica/~4/GWmaK55G84s" height="1" width="1"/>

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Sheafe's career is compared with that of a fellow black minister, Matthew C. Strachan, who at times opposed him on matters of Adventist church organization and authority, in an article published in the April 2011 issue of Ministry magazine. Entitled, "Proclaiming the Gospel and Changing Society," the article "reveals how...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmerica/~4/_cUQyDJ2XAo" height="1" width="1"/>

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When America's most famous revivalist, Billy Sunday, laid plans for an evangelistic campaign in Washington, D.C. to begin in January 1918, a correspondent to the Washington Bee newspaper proposed that, in view of Sunday's refusal to address racial injustice, the city's black churches organize their own revival, and that Sheafe...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmerica/~4/mCOKTBkYZgY" height="1" width="1"/>

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Comments on the biography by Charles E. Bradford, Martin E. Marty, Monte Sahlin, Emory Tolbert, Michele Riley-Jones, George Knight, and Myles V. Lynk (grandson of Lewis Sheafe) in Reviews &amp; Commentary.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmerica/~4/dd9jHjTHFIA" height="1" width="1"/>

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Entry on Sheafe in Who's Who in Colored America and the "parable" about two sheep on a mountain path that Sheafe related in explaining his reconciliation with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in 1913. Posted July 30, 2010<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmerica/~4/a1f4d67Eucg" height="1" width="1"/>

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Though virtually unknown today, a century ago Sheafe was by all accounts the leading figure in the rise of Adventism among African Americans. Not only that, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg described him as “a more liberally educated and cultivated man” than “any other Seventh-day Adventist minister,” adding that the church...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LewisCSheafeApostleToBlackAmerica/~4/BD_zh00v-3g" height="1" width="1"/>

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