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xi, 457 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
A public health and economic crisis provoked by Covid-19. A social crisis cracked open by the filmed murder of George Floyd. A leadership crisis laid bare as the gravity of a global pandemic met a country suffocating in political polarization and idolatry. 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. -- Back cover |
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Includes index (page 457). |
| Contents |
Summer (June-August 2020): Founding vision / Anne Snyder ; From ashes / Susannah Black ; What kind of turning point? / Mark Noll ; God and the pandemic / N.T. Wright ; In a time of pandemic, "health is membership" / Gracy Olmstead ; The atmosphere / Doug Sikkema ; Verse lines when the streets are on fire / James Matthew Wilson ; Christianity and the social question / Patrick Pierson ; Political wisdom and the limits of expertise / Jennifer Frey ; The habits of exile / J.L. Wall ; A politics worse than death / Michael Wear ; Alright / Danté Stewart ; When place becomes paramount / Joe Nail and Benya Kraus -- Autumn (September-November 2020): Portland : on the ground / Patrick Tomassi ; Is God anti-racist? / Amy Julia Becker ; Going dark / Jeffrey Bilbro ; Story, culture, and the common good / Marilynne Robinson and Cherie Harder ; A tale of two evangelicalisms / Joel Halldorf ; Observations of a new citizen / Irena Dragaš Jansen ; Exodus / Katherine Boyle ; The skill of hospitality / L.M. Sacasas ; Politics strike back / Jake Meador ; God has heard / Joshua Bombino and Chelsea Langston Bombino -- Winter (December 2020-February 2021): Praying through the political divides in the family / Aryana Petrosky Roberts ; Good grief / Stuart McAlpine ; Preparing for death / Heather C. Ohaneson ; Politics and political service / Oliver O'Donovan ; Justice in a time out of joint / W. Bradford Littlejohn ; What is policing for, and how do we reform it? / Anthony M. Barr ; Biden's Augustinian call for concord / Michael Lamb ; What is unity? / Shadi Hamid, Samuel Kimbriel, Christine Emba ; Relativism is out, truth is in / Brandon McGinley ; Taking it outside / John Clair ; Words and flesh : pastoring in a post-truth world / Kurt Armstrong ; Arguments for the sake of heaven / Jonathan Haidt, Peter Wehner, Cherie Harder -- Spring (March-May 2021): Courage, citizenship, and the limits of autonomy / Dhananjay Jagannathan ; How to be white / Phil Christman ; The call to own / Gregory Thompson and Duke Kwon ; The turning point / Carlo Lancellotti ; On good parties / Tara Isabella Burton ; The horror of nursing homes / Charles C. Camosy ; Be not afraid / Joseph M. Keegin ; Recovering democratic politics / Luke Bretherton ; Democracy after God / Tobias Cremer ; The Small Magazine Project / Elayne Allen ; Breaking ground / Suzannah Black ; Beholding ground / Anne Snyder. |
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Religion and culture.
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Religion and culture -- History -- 21st century.
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Christian humanism.
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Christian humanism -- History -- 21st century.
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Floyd, George, 1973-2020 -- Death and burial.
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Christian humanism. (OCoLC)fst01920974
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Religion and culture. (OCoLC)fst01093823
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COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-) (OCoLC)fst02024716
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| Genre/Form |
Religious materials.
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| Added Author |
Snyder, Anne (Editor), editor.
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Black, Susannah, editor.
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Breaking ground |
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Charting our future in a pandemic year |
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Selections from: Comment (Mississauga, Ont. : Online)
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| ISBN |
9781636080420 (hardcover) |
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1636080421 (hardcover) |
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