(1906– ; bimonthly; 1994 circulation, 190,614; files in R&H ). A magazine of religious freedom; a publication of the North American Division, sponsored by the Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department of the General Conference. It is successor to Sentinel of Christian Liberty (originally the American Sentinel), founded and first published in January 1886 as a monthly by the Pacific Press, at that time in Oakland, California.
At first a 32-page quarterly, Liberty became a bimonthly with the January 1959 issue. Liberty was launched in 1906, two years after its predecessor, Sentinel of Christian Liberty , had ceased publication. It was published for the Religious Liberty Bureau of the General Conference “as a medium for disseminating the principles of Christian Liberty.” Its first issue carried the subtitle “A magazine of religious freedom, devoted to the American idea of religious liberty exemplified in the complete separation of church and state.” The current issues carry a “Declaration of Principles of the Religious Liberty Association of America,” which “was organized in 1889 by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Dedicated to the preservation of religious freedom, the association advocates no political or economic theories.”
Editors: L. A. Smith, 1906–1909; C. M. Snow, 1909–1912; W. W. Prescott, 1912–1913; C. S. Longacre, 1913–1942; H. H. Votaw, 1942–1954; F. H. Yost, 1955–1958; J. A. Buckwalter, 1959; R. R. Hegstad, 1959–1993; Clifford R. Goldstein, 1993– .