Editor-in-chief Anne Snyder shares her reflections at the close of this one-year publishing project. "My hope is that those tethered to God's love might yet be moved to create spaces like this one, on and off the page, for honest reflection, dialogue, imagination, and especially grace."| Breaking Ground
Why do we read? As a child, I read books because they moved me, and wrote stories to try and produce the same effect—primarily in myself; writing stories was a […]| Breaking Ground
The work that Breaking Ground has been a part of is simply this work: continuing the work of that midcentury Christianity which itself has roots that, age by age, reach back to the very beginnings of our faith, of our civilization, of the world that God created and redeemed and that we are called to form and fill.| Breaking Ground
Dogs evolved “expressive eyebrows” to trigger feelings of affection in humans, according to a 2019 study reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that in the thirty […]| Breaking Ground
Albert Camus writes that if you’re truly paying attention, beauty, for all its sweetness, is “unbearable.” Beauty, he says, “drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of […]| Breaking Ground
David Henreckson: This past year was devastating for many institutions of higher education. Jobs were furloughed or lost. Departments shuttered. Many educators were forced to re-evaluate what is really central to […]| Breaking Ground
Excerpted from Fire and Spirit, the fourth volume in Inner Land: A Guide into the Heart of the Gospel. The Pentecostal spring of the first Christian church contrasts sharply with the icy rigidity of […]| Breaking Ground
Does our worship have anything to do with our day to day work? In this sermon, Kaemingk reminds us that the gospel has radical implications, not just for our hearts, but for the work of our hands. Thus we come to the table as workers, as those labouring in the world. The work of our hands, not just the piety of our heart, matters to God!| Breaking Ground
INTRODUCTION “Breath of God” at Priory of the Holy Spirit, Oxford, for Pentecost 2021 This homily comes from the hand of the former Master of the Order of Preachers, the […]| Breaking Ground
When it comes to Silicon Valley, 2020 is not the great reckoning predicted in the book of Revelation, despite the fires, the plagues, and the wailing on Twitter. It is the resignation and determination of Exodus, of a dogged people packing up U-Hauls and fleeing this frontier state to seek an even newer, more eternal world.| Breaking Ground
