Haitian Adventism & Christmas
DISCUSSING HAITIAN ADVENTISM AND CHRISTMAS opens up a forum for a wider conversation on how this religious community views and approaches what it typically categorizes as secular festivities of pagan origin. Highlighting Christmas has more to do with the time of these reflections as opposed to the holiday being of some greater degree of secularization than others. I can easily talk about Easter and Thanksgiving but the general ideas shared below would be applicable to all. As I have articulated elsewhere, seeing that I’m of the North American Haitian Seventh-day Adventist church (NAHSDAC) community, my reflections are limited to what is
Social Justice and North American Haitian Seventh-day Adventism
It is no secret that there is a disconnect between the North American Haitian Seventh-day Adventist church (NAHSDAC) and social justice. I’m specifically speaking of the NAHSDAC in the northeast of the United States since that’s the one I’m familiar with. The reasons as to why aren’t all the same as is with Adventist churches of other nationalities and social-ethnic groups. To be fair, members of the church have participated in protests to support Haitian concerns in the country. For instance, “In 1990, the FDA recommended a policy of banning blood donations from people of Haitian and sub-Saharan African origin,