They Also Served: Stories of Adventist Women

Premieres March 7, 2025!

Coming March 7, on this season of They Also Served: Stories of Adventist Women. Join host Heidi Olson Campbell as she explores the untold stories and "unvisited tombs" of women in Adventist history. Premieres March 7, 2025. Subscribe now! 

Unvisited Tombs

Why study women's history? Why are women's roles in the development of Christianity so often invisible? Historian Dr. Heidi Olson Campbell uncovers why the way history is written and preserved can leave many important stories untold and why telling these stories matters for understanding our past and our future.
Guests: Laura Wibberding, Dr. Lisa Clark Diller, Dr. Ed Allen, Dr. Kevin Burton, Dr. Ella Simmons, Celeste Ryan Blyden.
Show Notes
Book | They Also Served (1940) by Ava Covington

Your Daughters Will Prophesy: Women in the Millerite Movement

Women were active participants in the Millerite Movement, a mid-nineteenth century American revival movement. They not only believed Christ was coming soon, they actively disseminated the good news. And if Christ was coming soon, they needed to work together to improve the lives of those around them. This episode explores the lives of little-known Millerite women who were actively involved in the Millerite, temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements and how these activities intersected.
Guest: Dr. Kevin Burton, Director of the Center for Adventist Research. 
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Book | Strangers and Pilgrims by Catherine Brekus https://uncpress.org/book/9780807847459/strangers-and-pilgrims/
Book | Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America by Catherine Brekus - https://a.co/d/cyznIlQ 
Book | Barbara Kruger “Divine Expectations: An American Woman In Nineteenth-Century Palestine” - https://a.co/d/3sVK2Gv 
1843 Fitch Prophecy Chart - https://adventistdigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/adl:421834
This episode mentions Sojourner Truth, William Miller, Clorinda S. Minor, Emily Clemens Pearson, Olivia Maria Rice, Lucy Maria Hersy Stoddard, Caroline Severance, Charles Fitch, Abigail Folsom, Catherine S. Kilton, and Ellen Harmon White. 

Gospel Bearers Ignoring Barriers: Building the Church

Many women in the Millerite Movement had eagerly hoped for Christ to come on October 22, 1844.  They had dedicated their time, energy and resources to spread the good news of Christ's soon return through print and by mouth. But what happened after Christ didn’t return on October 22, 1844?
Did women return home to be the “angels of the household”?
Or did they play a role in the formation of the churches that came out of the Millerite Movement, shaping the landscape of American Christianity forever?
Guests: Dr. Cindy Tutsch, Author and retired Associate Director of the Ellen White Estate. Dr. Michael Campbell, Director of Archives, Statistics and Research at the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Celeste Ryan Blyden is the Executive Secretary for the Columbia Union. 
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Article | Annie Rebekah Smith - https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=AA69 
Article | Adelia Patton Van Horn - https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=AIST&highlight=conference 
Article | Maude Boyd - https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=AAZ0 
Article | Only Eyes Were Lost: The Life of Ai Araki - https://am.adventistmission.org/v4n3-20 
Book | Ellen White on Leadership by Cindy Tustch - https://www.adventsource.org/store/items-by-author?value=Cindy%20Tusch 
Books by Michael Campbell | https://www.adventsource.org/store/items-by?value=Michael%20Campbell
This episode mentions Mary Frances Maxon, Annie Rebekah Smith,  Adelia Patton Van Horn, Minnie Sipe, Sarah Lindsey,  Martha Byington Amadon,  Maude Sisely Boyd,  Ai Araki, and Ellen White.
 

The Free State of Knight

Anna Knight always wanted an education. Born in 1874 to a white, defected Confederate soldier and an emancipated slave of mixed heritage, she grew up in a post-Civil War South where education for Black children was severely restricted—or outright banned.
Yet, Anna’s unwavering determination propelled her beyond these barriers. Once denied access to basic schooling, she rose to become a nurse, educator, and administrator, earning recognition as a trailblazing leader among Black Seventh-day Adventists, Black women worldwide, and the entire Seventh-day Adventist community—Black or white, male or female.
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Article | Anna Knight - Adventist Encyclopedia - https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=7CF2&highlight=anna|knight
Article | The True Story of the Free State of Jones - Smithsonian Mag
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-free-state-jones-180958111/
This episode mentions Anna Knight, Newton Knight, and John Harvey Kellogg.

The Woman Who Wouldn't Die

As women contributed to the cause of the church in the early 20th century, they faced the challenge of juggling professional and domestic tasks, often caring for multiple generations while providing financial for the family, yet were often paid less - even half as much - as their male counterparts. 
Despite working themselves into the ground, women continued to work for the benefit of their church, and Alma McKibbin was one of them. But Alma barely made it out alive. 
Thank you to our guest, Laura Wibberding, Assistant Professor of History and Department Chair, Pacific Union College. 
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Article | Alma KcKibbin - https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=AIPT&highlight=Alma|Mckibbin 
Book | A manual of lessons in Old Testament history for academic grades, by Alma McKibbin - https://lccn.loc.gov/18003993 
Book | "Step by Step: The Story of Alma McKibbin" (1964) - by Alma McKibbin
Book | "My Sister Alma and I" (1980) - Alonzo McKibbin
Article | Sarah Peck - https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/article?id=AJI9&highlight=sarah|peck 
Archive | Pacific Union College Archives - https://library.puc.edu/library/content/heritage/archives-special-collections 
Article | The Sandwich Generation - Pew Research - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/01/30/the-sandwich-generation/ 
This episode discusses Alma McKibbin and Sarah Peck, Jenny Irland, Minnie Sipe, and Alonzo McKibbin.