You may have been one of the many subscribers to the Daily Dig from the Bruderhof Communities who was disappointed when it unexpectedly ceased last year. Let me wholeheartedly recommend the Daily Asterisk to fill that void in your inbox. I've been impressed with the range of material I've received since it began a month ago and the often pointed words examining church and culture.

I'll paste in a few samples from the last month to give you a taste and then a link to the subscription page (it's free). 

Civil disobedience as prayer is not an act of defiance but an act of obedience to a deeper, interior will within us and within the world which is capable of transforming the world. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done."
Jim Douglass
"Civil Disobedience as Prayer" in Peace is the Way

Consumers being satisfied with enough has always been a serious problem to those who want to promote a high level of economic growth. Economist John Kenneth Gailbraith stated that the new mission of business, therefore, was to "create the wants it seeks to satisfy." And the only way in which it is possible to create new wants is to persuade people to change their values. Over the past seventy years the corporate world has succeeded brilliantly in persuading us to change our values and our wants, and the church has hardly seemed to notice.
Tom Sine
Mustard Seed versus McWorld

The task of the Church is to get on with implementing the victory of the cross; and if we grasped that vision and lived by it, we would be able at last to address some of the problems in the Church and the world that loom so large and seem so intractable. The battle has been won; let's get on and implement it. Let us follow our victorious Lord wherever he goes.
N.T. Wright
Following Jesus

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