{"id":6,"date":"2019-03-04T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-09-10T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T15:17:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We come from different backgrounds. We speak different languages. We eat different foods. We worship in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, we are all members of a religious body boasting 17 million members around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Pew Research Center conducted a Religious Landscape Study, surveying more than 35,000 Americans. The study found the Seventh-day Adventist Church to be the most racially diverse religious group in the United States, with 37 percent of its adult members identifying themselves as white, 32 percent as black, 15 percent as Hispanic, eight percent as Asian and eight percent as another race or mixed race.<\/p>\n<p>This semester,\u00a0 as students in the Interactive Journalism class at Southern Adventist University, we will look closer at the church demographics \u2013 analyzing the data,\u00a0researching the background and documenting the trends, using interactive tools for an online audience.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1lbdro9AeFK4RZo1WpSVt4e04fxnfkGKe\/preview\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We will tell the stories of people who represent church diversity based on race, ethnicity, culture and gender.\u00a0 And we will explore what diversity really means in today\u2019s society, as well as the nuances of unity versus uniformity.<\/p>\n<p>The project \u2013 led by professors Alva James-Johnson and Ryan Harrell \u2013\u00a0 will result in an interactive website with loads of information. To meet us all and learn more about our backgrounds and why we\u2019re involved in this project,<a href=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/?cat=7\">\u00a0read through our profiles here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, we will update you \u2013 our audience \u2013 on our findings through weekly blog postings. So, before leaving this website, please subscribe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We come from different backgrounds. We speak different languages. We eat different foods. We worship in different ways. And yet, we are all members of a religious body boasting 17 million members around the globe. In 2014, the Pew Research Center conducted a Religious Landscape Study, surveying more than 35,000 Americans. The study found the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}