By Kevin Butler Conference President 2021 Australian journalist Matthew Knott is a 32-year-old U.S. correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. He was in New York City earlier...
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By Carl Greene Executive Director If your answer to this inquiry about a “Questionable Life” is no, then your church may not be healthy. Really. A questionable life is necessary...
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The global coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of millions of North Americans. Developing and maintaining healthy leaders and...
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Focus on Missions By Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Jesus has a master plan for transforming the world. His plan is that through the power of the...
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May 28, 2019
By Leanne Lippincott-Wuerthele Assistant Editor, 1982-2014 I’m pleased to write this article for the SR and offer my congratulations on the denomination’s 175th birthday. First, I’d like to mention some background information regarding myself: I wasn’t born an SDB but became one through my marriage to Dennis Lippincott. After marrying Denny, I moved from...
May 28, 2019
Rev. Nicholas J. Kersten Director of Education and History In 1994, for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Sabbath Recorder, Editor Kevin Butler oversaw the production of a special issue which detailed the history of the publication. In it, the authors detailed the changes over the Recorder’s life to that point, as well as some of the key figures...
By Donna (Sanford) Bond “I can hardly remember when the Sabbath Recorder was not a part of my life,” I told Pat Cruzan when she mentioned the upcoming 175th anniversary issue. “Maybe you should write about it for the June issue,” she responded. So here it is: The Sabbath Recorder no doubt came into our home before I was born. Once I got beyond Dick, Jane and...
By Katrina Goodrich The world is a smaller place than it was in 1844. The newest communication technology released that year was the telegraph. Today we have cell phones and the internet; we can hop on an airplane and be halfway around the world in less than a day. But while the world is a smaller place today, the distance between people is larger than ever. I...
By John R. Morgan The title comes from an observation I made in an email to Janet Thorngate in which I enclosed a camera-shot of the handwritten note to “Dea. David Rogers” signed “Geo. B. Utter.” It was on the first of two blank pages in a bound volume of the entire first year of The Sabbath Recorder (52 issues! Volume I: June 13, 1844 – June 19, 1845)....
May 28, 2019
John D. Bevis, Editor 1973-1982 Editor John D. Bevis originated much of the Sabbath Recorder as we know it today. When he became editor in 1973, it was a small 6 x 9 inch 16-page newsletter format publication. John changed the Sabbath Recorder into a full-sized monthly magazine for Seventh Day Baptists. Color was added and then occasionally a full-color cover....
By Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society The Sabbath Recorder and the Missionary Society have some parallels. First of all, they are almost the same age. The current organization of the Missionary Society was established in 1846, two years after the printing of the first Sabbath Recorder. Secondly, they both have been all over the globe....
May 28, 2019
Patricia Cruzan, Editor, 2014- In 1976, I joined the team working with Editor John Bevis in the Publishing House in Plainfield, NJ. First, I arrived to do some office work one day a week—and there I discovered that I had a passion for producing the Sabbath Recorder. Before long I was working as Art Director with Sandy Clare (typesetting), Etta O’Connor...