{"product_id":"breaking-ground-9781636080420","title":"Breaking Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs a pandemic and racial reckoning exposed society’s faults, Christian thinkers were laying the groundwork for a better future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 was no ordinary year.\u003c\/b\u003e A public health crisis provoked by Covid-19. A social crisis ignited by the death of George Floyd. A leadership crisis laid bare as the gravity of a global pandemic met a country suffocating in political polarization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 2020, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eComment \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003emagazine created a publishing project to tap the resources of a Christian humanist tradition to respond collaboratively and imaginatively to these crises. \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlough \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003esoon joined in the venture. So did seventeen other institutions. The web commons that resulted – \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBreaking Ground\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e – became a one-of-a-kind space to probe society’s assumptions, interrogate motives, and imagine what a better future might require.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume, written in real time during a year that revealed the depths of society’s fissures, provides a wealth of reflections and proposals on what might come after. It is an anthology of writing by people of faith seeking to understand how they can best serve the broader society and renew the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors \u003c\/b\u003einclude 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Noll","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959921840246,"sku":"9781636080420","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d2199b17-8c50-44bb-8b08-d9f517eadd45.jpg?v=1767780021","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/breaking-ground-9781636080420","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}