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)....