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Adventist Today (OCLC 28194459) is a quarterly Christian magazine and website representing a Moderate Seventh-day Adventist perspective. The magazine was first published in 1993, and as of 2015 is edited by Loren Seibold. Adventist Today has offices in Sandy, Oregon.

History

The idea of the magazine was conceived in 1992 by Raymond Cottrell, Keith Colburn, Richard Hammill, Ervin Taylor and Jim Walters; all of Loma Linda, California. They sought for "objective news and open discussion of issues in order to achieve the representative type of church governance that it claims".^[1]

The first issue was May/June, 1993. By the following year there were 2500 subscribers.^[2]

The Adventist Today website was started in 1998.^[3]

Past editors

• 1993–? Raymond Cottrell, co-founding editor
• 1993–? James Walters, co-founding editor/publisher
• 1998–2007: John McLarty
• 2008: Andy Nash^[4]
• 2009—2015: J. David Newman
• 2015 to the present: Loren Seibold

Individuals who have also served in editorial roles: Duane Covrig; Steve Daily; Delwin Finch; Cheri Lynn Gregory; Gayle Saxby; James Stirling; Colleen Moore Tinker; Susan Walters.

Readership

According to a survey in 2000 by Adventist Today of its subscribers, 8% felt they related best to "Conservative" Adventists, 56% to "Middle of the Road", and 36% to "Liberal".^[5]

See also

• Spectrum (magazine), a progressive independent Adventist publication
• List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals
• Seventh-day Adventist Church

References