Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year
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Breaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year
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Overview
In the spring of 2020, Comment magazine created a publishing project to tap the resources of a Christian humanist tradition to respond collaboratively and imaginatively to these crises. Plough soon joined in the venture. So did seventeen other institutions. The web commons that resulted – Breaking Ground – became a one-of-a-kind space to probe society’s assumptions, interrogate our own hearts, and imagine what a better future might require.
This volume, written in real time during a year that revealed the depths of our society’s fissures, provides a wealth of reflections and proposals on what should come after. It is an anthology of different lenses of faith seeking to understand how best we can serve the broader society and renew our civilization.
Contributors include Anne Snyder, Susannah Black, Mark Noll, N. T. Wright, Gracy Olmstead, Doug Sikkema, Patrick Pierson, Jennifer Frey, J. L. Wall, Michael Wear, Dante Stewart, Joe Nail, Benya Kraus, Patrick Tomassi, Amy Julia Becker, Jeffrey Bilbro, Marilynne Robinson, Cherie Harder, Joel Halldorf, Irena Dragas Jansen, Katherine Boyle, L. M. Sacasas, Jake Meador, Joshua Bombino, Chelsea Langston Bombino, Aryana Petrosky Roberts, Stuart McAlpine, Heather C. Ohaneson, Oliver O’Donovan, W. Bradford Littlejohn, Anthony M. Barr, Michael Lamb, Shadi Hamid, Samuel Kimbriel, Christine Emba, Brandon McGinley, John Clair, Kurt Armstrong, Peter Wehner, Jonathan Haidt, Dhananjay Jagannathan, Phil Christman, Gregory Thompson, Duke Kwon, Carlo Lancellotti, Tara Isabella Burton, Charles C. Camosy, Joseph M. Keegin, Luke Bretherton, Tobias Cremer, and Elayne Allen.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781636080420 |
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| Publisher: | Plough Publishing House, The |
| Publication date: | 01/04/2022 |
| Pages: | 468 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Susannah Black received her BA from Amherst College and her MA from Boston University. She is an editor at Plough, Mere Orthodoxy, New Polity, and The Davenant Press and is a co-founder of Solidarity Hall and The Simone Weil Center. Her writing has appeared in First Things, The Distributist Review, Solidarity Hall, Providence, Amherst Magazine, Front Porch Republic, Ethika Politika, The Human Life Review, The American Conservative, Mere Orthodoxy, Fare Forward, Postliberal Thought, and elsewhere. A native Manhattanite, she now lives in Queens.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Summer (June-August 2020)
Founding vision Anne Snyder 2
From Ashes Susannah Black 4
What Kind of Turning Point? Mark Noll 13
God and the Pandemic N. T. Wright 24
In a Time of Pandemic, "Health Is Membership" Gracy Olmstead 28
The Atmosphere Doug Sikkema 34
Verse Lines When the Streets Are on Fire James Matthew Wilson 41
Christianity and the Social Question Patrick Pierson 50
Political Wisdom and the Limits of Expertise Jennifer Frey 57
The Habits of Exile J. L. Wall 70
A Politics Worse than Death Michael Wear 78
Alright Danté Stewart 92
When Place Becomes Paramount Joe Nail Benya Kraus 100
Autumn (September-November 2020)
Portland: On the Ground Patrick Tomassi 118
Is God Anti-Racist? Amy Julia Becker 128
Going Dark Jeffrey Bilbro 138
Story, Culture, and the Common Good Marilynne Robinson Cherie Harder 143
A Tale of Two Evangelicalisms Joel Halldorf 153
Observations of a New Citizen Irena Dragaš Jansen 167
Exodus Katherine Boyle 176
The Skill of Hospitality L. M. Sacasas 180
Politics Strike Back Jake Meador 189
God has Heard Joshua Bambino Chelsea Langston Bambino 195
Winter (December 2020-February 2021)
Praying through the Political Divides in the Family Aryana Petrosky Roberts 208
Good Grief Stuart McAlpine 213
Preparing for Death Heather C. Ohaneson 229
Politics and Political Service Oliver O'Donovan 240
Justice in a Time Out of Joint W. Bradford Littlejohn 246
What is Policing for, and How Do We Reform It? Anthony M. Barr 255
Biden's Augustinian Call for Concord Michael Lamb 267
What is Unity? Christine Emba Shadi Hamid Samuel Kimbriel 270
Relativism Is Out. Truth Is In. Brandon McGinley 291
Taking It Outside John Clair 296
Words and Flesh Kurt Armstrong 307
Arguments for the Sake of Heaven Jonathan Haidt Peter Webner Cherie Harder 319
Spring (March-May 2021)
Courage, Citizenship, and the Limits of Autonomy Dhananjay Jagannathan 338
How to be White Phil Christman 345
The Call to Own Gregory Thompson Duke Kwon 366
The Turning Point Carlo Lancellotti 374
On Good Parties Tara Isabella Burton 385
The Horror of Nursing Homes Charles C. Camosy 391
Be Not Afraid Joseph M. Keegin 399
Recovering Democratic Politics Luke Bretherton 407
Democracy after God Tobias Cremer 416
The Small Magazine Project Elayne Allen 425
Breaking Ground Susannah Black 433
Beholding Ground Anne Snyder 452
Index of Contributors 457