{"id":108,"date":"2021-02-12T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2021-03-01T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T19:20:47","slug":"josue-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/josue-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"Josue Vega – Secrets and Saints: Investigating the generational rift about taboo topics in the SDA church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hi! My name is Josue Vega. I\u2019m 22 years old and a third-generation Seventh-day Adventist Christian from Puerto Rico. I currently study mass communication with an emphasis in media production at Southern Adventist University. I love any sort of art that involves storytelling\u2014films, books, dance, and music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s another thing about me: I\u2019ve always relished a good secret. Whether it was for the power it made me feel like I had, or for the delicious feeling of being in the know, I was always intrigued to find out what happened behind the scenes of everyone\u2019s life. Knowing what was going on behind the stiff, smiling masks of so many felt like an intimate connection, and I basked in that feeling whenever I got the chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn\u2019t take me long to find out, however, that not everyone felt the same way about secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cKeep that under wraps, you don\u2019t want to ruin their reputation,\u201d is a sentence that many of us heard growing up, and I was no exception. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the go-to warning statement from adults who knew they had said too much in front of little ears and wanted to keep the situation controlled. Of course, this was often hard for us younger ones because we longed to investigate the secret and announce our discoveries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we grew older, however, we realized that some secrets were not just disappointing to keep, but dangerous. And many of us felt like they had to be revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But does this discrepancy between the generations extend to how the Seventh-day Adventist church handles its secrets? Is the old stereotype of the older saints desperately dragging secrets into the shadows in order to preserve the church\u2019s reputation, while the younger generation claws them into the light, a true one? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what happens behind closed doors, when shocking untold stories come to light or taboo topics are breached? Is there a difference in beliefs between the generations over how such matters should be handled? I\u2019ve heard a great number of secrets in my time. I\u2019ve also seen how they\u2019ve been handled by different generations, either to their benefit or destruction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let\u2019s investigate some church taboo subjects together, and hopefully, we can learn a lot from them. At the very least, we can learn from the damages that have been caused to our denomination. Let\u2019s do some detective work together, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi! My name is Josue Vega. I\u2019m 22 years old and a third-generation Seventh-day Adventist Christian from Puerto Rico. I currently study mass communication with an emphasis in media production at Southern Adventist University. I love any sort of art that involves storytelling\u2014films, books, dance, and music.  Here\u2019s another thing about me: I\u2019ve always relished … <\/p>\n

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