Signs of the Times (Australian magazine)

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Signs of the Times is a monthly subscription magazine published by Signs Publishing Company, a Seventh-day Adventist publishing house, for Australia and New Zealand. "Signs" is an easy-to-read magazine for the general public "promoting positive relationships and family values, a healthful lifestyle and Bible-based Christian belief."^[1]

Signs is related to the North American magazine of the same title, which is published by Pacific Press.

History

Signs of the Times began publication in Melbourne on 2 November 1885 under the name Bible Echo and Signs of the Times.

Awards

Signs has won the following awards from the Australasian Religious Press Association (website)

• 2010 – Best Layout - Highly Commended
• 2010 – Best Review of Another Medium - bronze: "Making Much of Little" by Nick Mattiske, April 2009
• 2010 – Best Article, Applying Faith to Life - silver: "From the Ashes" by Adele Nash, April 2009
• 2009 – "Best layout" category: Signs magazine "Highly commended" for being "constantly well laid out with good use of typography and format"^[2]
• 2009 – Best humorous item^[2] – silver: "Another Shot at Saying 'Sorry'" by David Edgren, May 2008
• 2005 – Best illustration – winner: "When Liberty Drops Her Torch" by Shane Winfield, July 2004
• 2003 – Best Features – winner: "Attack on the world trade center one year on" by Hans Kunnen, August 2003
• 2003 – Best Magazine Layout – highly commended: Signs of the Times magazine
• 2003 – Most Originality – winner: "Letter From the Future", Robert Wolfgramm, June 2001

See also

• Signs of the Times (magazine)
• El Centinela (Adventist magazine)
• List of Seventh-day Adventist periodicals
• Signs Publishing Company
• Seventh-day Adventist Church

References

External links

• Signs of the Times website
  • "120 years of Signs of the Times!" by Alan Holman. Signs of the Times (Australia) January–February 2006

Archives (from General Conference Archives):

• Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, 1886–1903
• Australasian Signs of the Times, 1903– (incomplete, as of June 2007)