DAILY TEXTS
Daily Texts: Bringing Watchwords from Herrnhut to the world for 280 years Today, reading the Bible daily is not common. Often you can hear people say: “The Bible is an old book. It doesn’t have any relevance for my life. Also the Bible uses very old language. I can’t understand it.” If someone would say this to us in the Moravian Church, we would recommend the Daily Texts, which are known in Germany as the Losungen. Daily texts include only two bible verses per day; that is not so much. But when you read them, you have a theme for one day. Maybe you will find in them a special The Rev. Karin Wiedemann is the editorial officer of the Moravian Daily Texts, working in Herrnhut, Germany. Photo above: Vogtshof, administration building of the European Continental Province. Photos by Peter Isterheld. October 2010
importance for the daily life you live. Maybe they will raise some questions and lead you to look into their context in the Bible. That is the goal of the Daily Texts: to help people to find a way to read the Bible more and with more interest. (continued on next page)
Reverend Karin Wiedemann, editorial officer of the Moravian Daily Texts