Life and Work
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Life and Work has been the monthly magazine of the Church of Scotland since 1879. It was founded by Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1835-1908).
It incorporated the Mission Record of the Church of Scotland from 1900, and at the 1929 union of the Church, it merged with United Free Church's Record as Life and Work:the Record of the Church of Scotland.
Life and Work was an initiative of the Church's Committee of Christian Life and Work, which was led by Charteris (a professor of biblical criticism at Edinburgh University who was also founder of the Woman's Guild).
Life and Work has a 4-page Gaelic supplement, Na Duilleagan Gàidhlig, established in 1880, which is included on request, and is also available online.
The current editor is Lynne McNeil. The editor of the Gaelic supplement is Roderick McLeod, minister of Cumlodden, Lochfyneside.
In January 2006 the magazine reverted to its older title "Life and Work" (instead of "Life & Work").
[edit] List of editors
- 1887: Archibald Hamilton Charteris
- 1880-98: Rev John McMurtrie
- 1898-1902: Rev Archibald Fleming
- 1902-25: Rev Robert Howie Fisher
- 1925-30: Rev Harry Smith
- 1929-34: William Pringle Livingstone
- 1935-45: Rev George Carstairs
- 1945-65: Rev John Wright Stevenson
- 1965-72: Rev Leonard John Armstrong Bell
- 1972-91: Robert Deans Kernohan
- 1991-94: Peter B. Macdonald
- 1994-99: Dr Robin Hill (later Reverend)
- 2000-02: Rosemary Goring
- since 2002: Lynne McNeil
[edit] References and further reading
- R D Kernohan, Scotland's Life and Work, St. Andrew Press, Edinburgh, 1979. ISBN 0715204211
