''Life and Work'' is the editorially independent monthly magazine of the
Church of Scotland
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The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation of 1560, when it split from the Catholic Church ...
. It was founded in 1879 by
Archibald Hamilton Charteris. The first issue was published in January 1880 under the editorship of Rev Archibald Clerk from
Lorn.
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 ''The 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
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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 als
available online
The current editor is Lynne McNeil.
In January 2006 the magazine reverted to its older title ''Life and Work'', instead of ''Life & Work''.
In April 2013 a Life and Work website was launched, including extracts from the magazine as well as additional news and features.
List of editors
*1879:
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
See also
*
Church of Scotland Yearbook
References and further reading
* R D Kernohan, ''Scotland's Life and Work'', St. Andrew Press, Edinburgh, 1979.
''Life and Work'' website''Life and Work'' at the Church of Scotland website
1879 establishments in Scotland
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Scottish Gaelic mass media
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