The Daily Dig

The Bruderhof Community has a great daily resource available via e-mail subscription: the Daily Dig.

The Daily Dig is an article written by someone who may or may not be apart of the Bruderhof Community (yesterday's article was by Kathleen Norris who, last time I checked, was still happily a Presbyterian as well as a Benedictine oblate) that arrives every day in your e-mail box bright and early. They subtitle the Daily Dig "caffeine for your conscience." Two friends, our new pastor Bill Wallenbeck and my assistant Laci Scott, make it a part of their day - now it is part of mine, too.

I first encountered the Bruderhof Community in seminary when my Systematic Theology professor Bruce Demarest invited a former student, now a member of the Bruderhof Community, to instruct our class for the day. He talked briefly about the community and I found what he said as well as the way he taught to be very engaging.

This meditation/reading for this morning is an exceptionally good reflection on the Bible called Two-Edged Sword.

Comments

[Robert J. Bingaman]

What Charles Moore had to say about common misuses of the Bible is refreshing. And from my own experience, too many people allign themselves with one of the aforementioned extremes. For the last four years, walking across campus has allowed me to see true thumpers, one in particular who drew a 10 foot square around his Bible on Wescoe Beach, and preached the fire and brimstone to a group of people that had as much hatred for the book on the ground as he had misplaced fervor. His presentation of the Bible surprised me, because I realized that I believed everything he was saying, but had no place to recieve his message - and I had been hearing it for my entire life. This made it easier for me to see why some people can have such a serious lack of trust in those who speak for Christ, and how easy it is for members of both sides of this biblical paradigm to be pushed to the extreme by their counterparts.