At the height of the historic Civil Rights Movement which revolutionized the United States of America in the legal and extra-legal treatment of its citizens, Hope International was founded by one Lloyd Silver and four couples in July 1964. These charter members were laypeople of modest means residing in the Seattle metropolitan area. The organization’s express raison d’etre was to address perceived denominational apostasy stemming from the Martin-Barnhouse dialogue of the 1950s and its controversial literary product, the 1957 Questions on Doctrine.

Benjamin Baker teaches history at Washington Adventist University. This Black History Month talk was given at Andrews University in 2011.

In "1888 and Black People" the controversial 1888 Minneapolis General Conference Session is explored in a new and refreshing light. For almost 125 years the province of doctrinal divide, this talk probes the very practical ramifications of 1888 for black missions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Almost twenty-five years have passed since the Review and Herald published The Unknown Prophet by Delbert W. Baker.  The 160 page volume ushered in a denominational enlightenment, as it were, concerning long-held notions about a trilogy of prophetic choices in the heat of Millerism.  What led to The Unknown Prophet’s conception? How was it received by the denomination? And what has been its influence on Seventh-day Adventism in the intervening decades?

This continues an earlier post. . .

Preaching has always been an integral part of the Oakwood experience.  At almost every major Oakwood event, preaching is involved.  Moreover, a very high percentage of black Seventh-day Adventist pastors are educated at Oakwood, and they are, it may be said, the face of black Adventism.

When this light was given me, I had never seen Huntsville.  I was shown that Huntsville would be a place of special interest to those who would act their part to help the colored people. -Ellen G. White

Like many General Conference presidents before him including Ole Olsen, William Spicer, William Branson, Robert Pierson, and his father Neal Wilson, Ted Wilson was molded by ministerial tenure in Africa.