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While on a 6 mile walk between villages in the Cotswolds, England today, I spotted this sign on a back street in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England. ”Christadelphians”? What in the world? So I looked it up when we got back to our cottage and this is what I learned. Christadelphians: Historical and Current ContextOrigins and BeliefsThe Christadelphians, a non-Trinitarian Christian denomination, were founded in the mid-19th century by John Thomas, a British doctor who emigrated to the United States. The name means "brothers and sisters in Christ," derived from Greek. They base their beliefs solely on the Bible, rejecting the Trinity...

Christadelphians 1335. I have been asked to join the Christadelphians. Could you give me some information concerning them? The Christadelphian sect was founded in America by a man named John Thomas, who lived from 1805 till 1871. He was a member of an American sect called the "Disciples of Christ" or the"Campbellites," founded by Alexander Campbell, an ex-Presbyterian minister, in 1827. Thomas, reading the Bible with his own peculiar mentality, decided that the whole of Christendom had gone astray, including the Campbellites, and therefore decided to become a freelance Bible teacher. He taught that the doctrine of the Trinity...