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." The post Beholding Ground appeared first on 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 [ ] The post On the Schole of Faerie Tales appeared first on 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. The post Breaking Ground appeared first on 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 [ ] The post The Book of the Creatures appeared first on 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 [ ] The post The Abyss of Beauty appeared first on 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 [ ] The post Character in Crisis appeared first on 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 [ ] The post What Happened at Pentecost? appeared first on 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! The post His Supper, Your Stapler appeared first on Breaking…
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 [ ] The post Breath of God appeared first on Breaking Ground .
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