List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals explained

This is a list of periodicals published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church or by its church members. They include both official and unofficial publications relating to Seventh-day Adventism. Magazines which are only available on the internet are not included.

Most periodicals are listed by location of the publisher. A brief list of the most circulated periodicals is also included.

Title	Location	Publisher	Language	Frequency	Circulation	Archives
Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press	English	Quarterly		2003—
Adventist Review	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Weekly	30,000 paid^[1]	1849–1850 (Present Truth and Advent Review), 1850–1988, 1997—; Anniversary Issues
Adventist World	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald, Lane Press, Korean Publishing Company, Signs Publishing Company	English, Spanish, French	Monthly	1,200,000 unpaid^[2]	2006—
Adventisten heute	Germany: Lüneburg	Advent-Verlag Lüneburg	German	Monthly	20,000 unpaid	2004—2009 (AdventEcho), 2010—
Atlantic Union Gleaner	United States: South Lancaster, Massachusetts	Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Monthly	22,000^[3]	2007—
Canadian Adventist Messenger	Canada: Oshawa, Ontario	Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada	English	Monthly		2007—
Catalyst	Thailand: Saraburi	Institute Press, Asia-Pacific International University	English	Yearly	-	2007–present
College and University Dialogue		Committee on Adventist Ministry to College and University Students (AMiCUS)	English, Spanish, Portuguese, French	Three times per year	30,000^[4]	1994—
el Centinela	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press	Spanish	Monthly	100,000^[5]	2007—
Florida Focus	United States: Winter Park, Florida	Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Quarterly	23,000	1997—
Gleaner (periodical)	United States: Ridgefield, Washington	North Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Monthly	40,000^[6]	1906—present
Guide	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press Publishing Association	English	Weekly	30,000^[7]	Individual story archives
Insight	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Weekly		Cover story archives
La Femme d'Esprit	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	French	Bi-monthly
FLAME	United States: Alvarado, Texas	Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English/Spanish	Quarterly		Publication Archive
Lake Union Herald	United States: Berrien Springs, Michigan	Lake Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Monthly		2003—
Liberty	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Bi-monthly	200,000	1930, 1997—
LIFE.info	United Kingdom: Alma Park, Grantham, Lincolnshire	British Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Bi-monthly		Vol. 1 Issue 1—
Listen	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	9 issues per year		Article archives
Message	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Bi-monthly	75,000^[8]	Archives
Ministry	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, French^[9]	Monthly	53,000 unpaid^[10]	1928—
Mujeres del Espíritu	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	Spanish	Bi-monthly
My Best Friends Magazine	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Bi-monthly
Our Little Friend	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press	English	Weekly
Outlook	United States: Lincoln, Nebraska	Mid-America Conference Union of Seventh-day Adventist	English	Monthly		2005—
Pacific Union Recorder	United States: Westlake Village, California	Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Monthly	80,000^[11]	1901–1975, 2003—
PowerPoints Study Guide	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Quarterly
Primary Treasure	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press	English	Weekly
Real-Time Faith Bible Study Guides	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Quarterly
Record	Australia: Wahroonga	South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Weekly	26,000^[12]	(1898–1966, 2002—)
Renewed & Ready	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press	English	Monthly
Shabbat Shalom	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Three times per year
Sharing Scripture	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press	English	Monthly
Signs of the Times	United States: Nampa, Idaho	Pacific Press	English	Monthly		1874–1979, 2007—
Signs of the Times (Australian version)	Australia: Warburton, Victoria	Signs Publishing Company	English	Monthly	45,000	1903–1925, 1926–1933, 2002—
Southern Tidings	United States: Decatur, Georgia	Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Monthly	More than 80,000^[13]	2000–2003, 2006—
Southwestern Union Record	United States: Burleson, Texas	Southwestern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Monthly		2004—
Edge	Australia: Wahroonga	Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Bi-Monthly	26,000^[14]	1997—
The FLAME	United States: Alvarado, Texas	Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Quarterly		2006—
Vibrant Life	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Bi-monthly
Visitor	United States: Columbia, Maryland	Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists	English	Monthly	44,500^[15]	1901–1966, 2004–2006, 2007–2008
Winner	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	9 issues per year		Article archives
Women of Spirit	United States: Hagerstown, Maryland	Review and Herald	English	Bi-monthly		Article archive
Zeichen der Zeit	Germany: Lüneburg	Advent-Verlag Lüneburg	German	Quarterly	90,000 unpaid	2004—
Adventist Journal	ONLINE: Westmoreland, Jamaica	Advent Flame Media Centr

Periodicals by circulation

The list of Adventist periodicals by circulation may give some indication of notability, but this criterion alone does not measure the impact of a magazine, and gift subscriptions and other freely distributed magazines might be expected to have an inflated circulation. As an example, one may assume that academic journals have more influence than their lower circulations suggest.

Items here are also listed by location below. Many older issues of these periodicals can be viewed online at the Adventist Archives

• Adventist World – 1,200,000 (unpaid circulation)^[16]
• Liberty – over 200,000
• Health & Home(Adventist magazine) (flagship publication of Philippine Publishing House) – 165,000^[17]
• El Centinela (Spanish version of Signs of the Times) – 100,000
• Pacific Union Recorder – 75,000 unpaid^[18]
• Ministry – 53,000 (including 37,000 gift subscriptions)
• Signs of the Times (Australian version) – 45,000
• Gleaner – 40,000 unpaid subscribers
• Adventist Review – 30,000 paid subscribers
• Guide – 30,000
• College and University Dialogue – 30,000^[19]
• Record, magazine issued freely to Australian church members – 26,000^[20]
• Korean Signs of the Times – 17,000 in 2004^[21]

Scholarly journals

• The Journal of Adventist Education.^[22]
• Journal of the Adventist Theological Society - ? paid; nearly 2000 unpaid^[23]
• Spectrum, Adventist focus, independent.
• Andrews University Seminary Studies - 600
• Journal of Asia Adventist Seminary (?)
• Journal of Adventist Mission Studies (?)
• Asia Adventist Seminary Studies (?)
• Valley View University Journal of Theology (?)
• Journal of AIIAS African Theological Association (?)

Sabbath School lessons

These publications are used during Sabbath School time at church. Many are published on various denominational presses worldwide.

• Sabbath School Lesson study guide, or colloquially "the quarterly" (Adult)
• Beginner (infants)
• Kindergarten (Kindergarten)
• Our Little Friend (Kindergarten)
• Primary (Primary age)
• Primary Treasure (Primary age)
• PowerPoints (Juniors and Earliteens)
• Guide, a weekly story magazine for Juniors and Earliteens (10-14 year olds).
• Real Time Faith (Earliteens)
• Insight (Youth)
• Cornerstone Connections or Collegiate Quarterly (Youth)

Official local area newsmagazines

The official newsmagazines include:

• The Inter-American Division Messenger 1924–1966 in DjVu format,

United States:

• Gleaner (North Pacific Union) 1906–present (as of 2018)
• Pacific Union Recorder (Pacific Union Conference) 1901–1975 in DjVu format, 2003—
• Visitor (Columbia Union Conference) 1901–1966 in DjVu format, 2004–2006, 2007–2008

Adventist publishing houses

North America

North America is administered as the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.

Review and Herald Publishing Association

The Review and Herald Publishing Association:

• Adventist Review, the official Seventh-day Adventist magazine, issued weekly and with nearly 30,000 paid subscribers.
• Adventist World, an international magazine with 1.2 million unpaid circulation.
• Ministry, for pastors, by the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists. Monthly circulation to Adventists about 16,000; and bimonthly sent to about 37,000 pastors of other denominations on a gift basis.^[24] ISSN 0026-5314
• Liberty, devoted to religious freedom
• Listen, drug education for teens
• Message, mission with an urban edge
• Shabbat Shalom, aimed at facilitating dialogue between Jews and Christians
• Vibrant Life, about the health message
• Winner, drug education for late primary school age
• Women of Spirit, for women

Pacific Press Publishing Association

The Pacific Press Publishing Association:

• El Centinela monthly magazine, Spanish language version of Signs
• Signs of the Times monthly magazine for North America (one year of archives)

South Pacific

Signs Publishing Company in Warburton, Victoria, Australia is the church publisher of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. The three major magazines it publishes are:^[25]

• Signs of the Times, an easy-reading magazine in a format similar to Reader's Digest, the flagship publication of Signs Publishing Company for distribution in the South Pacific. It has a circulation of 45,000
• Record is a weekly news magazine aimed at churchmembers, issued freely to churches. Circulation of 26,000
• Edge is targeted at young adults, and published bimonthly by Signs Publishing.

Asia

• Catalyst, published from Mission College in Thailand
• Kerala Adventist Chronicle is the official magazine of southwest India union of SDA

South America

South America is administered as the South American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.

Asociación Casa Editora Sudamericana

The Asociación Casa Editora Sudamericana (South American Publishing House):

• Revista Adventista, the Spanish-language version of the Adventist Review.
• Vida Feliz, a publication related to the health message.
• Mis amigos, a publication in magazine format for children.

Universidad Adventista de Chile

The Universidad Adventista de Chile, through its Faculty of Theology publishes:

• Advenimiento, a theological review published semesterly, as a mean to make known researches in the biblical-theological field, in the context of the seventh-day adventist faith.

Independent

These may be significantly left or right of the Adventist mainstream, or may just be published by an independent organization.

Historic Adventism

• Our Firm Foundation, published by Hope International
• Pilgrim's Rest, by Vance Ferrell
• Adventists Affirm, published from Michigan. Archives from Spring 2000 (as of August 2008)

More moderate

• Perspective Digest, the popular-level publication of the Adventist Theological Society
• Adventist Australia

Progressive/liberal Adventism

• Adventist Today
• Spectrum, published by the Association of Adventist Forums. In 2002, paid subscriptions numbered 3000^[26]
• Adventist Heritage
• Present Truth Magazine (formerly of Robert Brinsmead)
• Good News Unlimited
• Adventist Professional
• Adventist Currents
• Evangelica

See also

• Seventh-day Adventist Church
• List of United States magazines
• Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
• History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

External links

• Adventist Archives
• Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI), sponsored by the Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians http://www.asdal.org/ (ASDAL)
  • List of Periodicals in the Index
• Publishing Ministries of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, a list of church publishers worldwide.
• Review and Herald magazines
• WorldCat search for Seventh-day Adventist periodicals
• Publishing Ministries, a list of church publishers.
• List of Adventist journals from ASDAL

Analysis and commentary:

• Four SDA News Reports Compared by Alicia Goree in Adventist Today 6:3

Notes and References

1. http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=2 Welcome
2. http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=773&PHPSESSID=dd0ecf2fc49e76838c84f355fee853dd Knott Elected Adventist Review and Adventist World Editor; Succeeds Retiring Editor Johnsson
3. Web site: http://www.atlantic-union.org/gleaner.html . www.atlantic-union.org . 2008-09-27.
4. http://dialogue.adventist.org/index.htm Welcome to Dialogue online!
5. http://www.elcentinela.com/?p=about Acerca de El Centinela
6. News: About the NPUC Gleaner. 2013-07-30. GleanerNow. 2018-11-08. en.
7. http://www.guidemagazine.org/aboutguide/advertise.asp Advertise in Guide
8. http://www.messagemagazine.org/article.php?id=3 Message magazine advertising
9. http://news.adventist.org/2009/04/french-edition-of-ad.html French edition of Adventist Church's journal for pastors debuts
10. http://ministrymagazine.org/ Ministry homepage
11. Pacific Union Recorder on the Pacific Union Conference website. Accessed 2008-09-25
12. http://adventist.org.au/media/publications/publications#publication2 South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventist Publications
13. http://www.southernunion.com/article.php?id=85 Southern Union Conference website
14. http://adventist.org.au/media/publications/publications#publication South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventist Publications
15. http://www.columbiaunion.org/article.php?id=206 Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
16. http://www.adventistreview.org/article.php?id=773&PHPSESSID=dd0ecf2fc49e76838c84f355fee853dd Adventist Review : Annual Council 2006 - 2
17. Australian Record July 1, 2006, p.5
18. http://pauccomm.netadventist.org/index.php?option=com_na_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=32 Pacific Union Recorder
19. http://dialogue.adventist.org/index.htm College and University Dialogue
20. Web site: Seventh-day Adventist Church South Pacific Publications . 2007-07-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070404233249/http://adventist.org.au/media/publications/publications#publication2 . 2007-04-04 . dead .
21. http://news.adventist.org/data/2004/10/1099422951/index.html.en North America: Korean Adventist Press Unites U.S. Korean Churches
22. Web site: Journal of Adventist Education Home. jae.adventist.org. en. 2018-11-05.
23. Web site: Publications :: Adventist Theological Society . 2007-02-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070224003342/http://www.atsjats.org/article.php?id=3 . 2007-02-24 . dead .
24. http://ministrymagazine.org/ Ministry, International Journal for Pastors : Welcome
25. Web site: Seventh-day Adventist Church South Pacific Publications . 2006-11-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060824161801/http://adventist.org.au/services/publishing/publications#publication . 2006-08-24 . dead .
26. http://people.wwc.edu/staff/thomal/writings/reviewandretro.htm AldenThompson.com | "Review and Retrospective on the Adventist Church During the Last 30 Years"