Packed every month with features, news and opinion on Christian Life within Scotland and further afield.
Life and Work was first published in 1879 and is the editorially independent monthly magazine of the Church of Scotland.
In every 60-page full colour issue you’ll find:
Prayer
Readers’ Letters
The Big Question
Features
Comment from regular columnists
Moderator’s Page
Profile
The Big Picture - photo page
Parish & World News
Bible Study
Mediation
Book Reviews
Registers
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Life and Work December 2017.
From The Editor
Follow the Editor on Twitter @LifeWorkEditor THIS month I shall be braving the freezing cold of a December night to ‘sleep’ under the stars to raise money for the Social Bite campaign to tackl...
PRAYER
Photo: iStock
This Christmas remember someone whom you have lost; someone who has been so much part of Christmas past. And let the loss and pain be comforted by the tender hands of Je...
The perfect gift this Christmas
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Why not gift the award winning magazine of the Church of Scotland this Christmas and have it sent to a family member, friend or someone in your congregation...
LETTERS
Clerical collar comments
A letter in a recent issue of the magazine referred to the fact that ministers nowadays seldom wear clerical collars,certainly when “off duty” but also frequently in chur...
The Big Question
This month’s question is: ‘Have you ever given an ‘alternative’ Christmas gift?’
Would you like to take part in a future Big Question?
Send us your details and interests to magazine@lifeandwork....
An appointment with redemptive destiny
Ron Ferguson considers the profound power of music as we look to ‘the child of hope’. COMMENT
I HEARD it first in St Magnus Cathedral. It sounded ethereal, gorgeously so. I was immediately capt...