Clifford Goldstein, editor of the Sabbath School Quarterly since 1999, has had a long and distinguished writing career. He has served as editor of Liberty magazine and Shabbat Shalom magazine. 

Clifford, born in Albany, New York, was raised as a secular Jew but converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1980. He has a passion for writing and studying, and is a lover of philosophy.