The Seventh-Day Adventist Analysis

Introduction When Ben Carson announced his run for office in 2015, the media was not the only group that was abuzz. The Seventh-day Adventist church become uniquely aware—possibly more than at any time in recent years—of the need to more fully understand the involvement of Seventh-day Adventist in the political arena. On a more personal note, I ran for council in the City of Niles in 2011, winning the seat and subsequently am currently running for mayor in 2016. Although I am not going to include many anecdotes about this in the report itself, I have included a brief discussion of this part of my life in one of the appendices. Adventists have traditionally seemed aloof to politics—with the belief circulating among some Adventists that politics is not appropriate to be involved …show more content…
A clear example is that of Michael Brown; every pastor across the United States should be against police brutality, but the fact of the Brown case were clear that the Michael Brown did not die because of police brutality, he died because he attempted to attack a police officer. The whole story—especially the now infamous hands-up, don’t shoot narrative—turned out to be a flat-out lie and completely deceptive. (US Department of Justice, 2015) And yet, through all of this, many people—not just Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson—but even people in the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary continued to advance a story that was flatly untrue, bringing shame and disgrace to our name. If this type of activity continues, there will be serious repercussions to those who have previously looked favorably on our church. We do not know all the facts, and the fact that we do know unequivocally exonerated the police officer in this situation. (US Department of Justice,