The Testimony is a Bible

Bible

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 magazine

Magazine

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 published monthly by the Christadelphians

Christadelphians

Christadelphians is a Christian group that developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century...

 (Brethren in Christ).

History

The Testimony was established in 1931 as 'a magazine for the study and defence of the Holy Scripture' and that, according to the magazine's website, remains its aim today. The Testimony Magazine Committee established the magazine as a supplement to community's main magazine The Christadelphian

The Christadelphian

The Christadelphian is a Bible magazine published monthly by The Christadelphian Magazine and Publishing Association . It states that it is 'A magazine dedicated wholly to the hope of Israel' and, according to the magazine website, it 'reflects the teachings, beliefs and activities of the...

 under the editorship of C. C. Walker

Charles Curwen Walker

Charles Curwen Walker was a Christadelphian writer and editor of The Christadelphian Magazine from 1898 to 1937.-Life:C. C. Walker was born near Diss, Depwade Rural District, Norfolk on February 18, 1856, son of a landowner. His middle name "Curwen" indicates his descent from the aristocratic...

, which carried general articles and ecclesial news. The first article of the first issue was entitled "A positive aim", written by Islip Collyer, many of whose books first appeared as series of articles in The Testimony. Other writers included W. H. Boulton

William Henry Boulton (author)

W. H. Boulton was an English writer on assyriology, transport history and religious subjects.William Henry Boulton was born on 11 April 1869 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, to Joseph Boulton, a brass founder and Ann Maria Elwood. He married Charlotte Harding in September 1891 in Hackney, Middlesex....

, Melva Purkis, and Harry Whittaker among many others.

Modern magazine

The magazine is divided into a number of sections: Exposition; Reviews; Exhortation; Watchman; Science

Science

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; Principles, Preaching and Problems; Prophecy, History

History

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 and Archaeology

Archaeology

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. There is an editor

Editing

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 for each section and an overall Publishing Editor.

The Testimony is published monthly and a normal issue consists of 36 pages. One issue per year is a Special Issue devoted to a particular theme and is normally double or more the size of an ordinary issue.

The publisher of the magazine is the Testimony Committee consisting of a chairman, a secretary, a treasurer, the editors and a number of other members. All members of the committee are active members of Christadelphian congregations subscribing to the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith.

The Testimony is published in the UK on a non-profitmaking basis and neither editors nor contributors are paid for their work. Print-ready copy is produced on a home PC

Personal computer

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 and then professionally printed; subscriptions and dispatch are also handled from the homes of committee members.

Subscriptions, back issues (1999 onwards), Special Issues and Basic Bible Principles (Bible inserts) are also available on The Testimony website.

Other publications

Occasionally books are published by the Testimony Committee

Committee

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 consisting of edited reprints of articles already published. Six such books are currently in print, including: -

• Which Translation? (a compilation of articles from The Testimony Magazine on the issue of Bible translations)
• Creation, Evolution and Science (which claims to demonstrates the reasonableness of Creation as an explanation of the origin of life, and the lack of credibility of the theory of evolution), and
• God's Purpose with Israel (which, according to the book's blurb
  Blurb
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  'Reinforces [the Christadelphian] understanding of the vital importance of Israel in God's plan').

Ordering information is available on The Testimony website.