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Dear Reader

Welcome to Breaking Ground, a network of institutions and people which has grown out of a year-long publishing project. The publishing project was created by Comment in the spring of 2020 to use the resources of the Christian humanist tradition to respond collaboratively and imaginatively to the year’s significant crises—a public health and economic crisis provoked by COVID-19, a social crisis cracked open by the filmed murder of George Floyd, and a leadership crisis laid bare as the gravity of a global pandemic met the epistemological fracture of a country suffocating in political polarization and idolatry. What you’ll find here is a searchable archive of every essay, event, podcast, and sermon published from 2020–2021. It is a body of work that should stand the test of time: a record of a year that revealed the depths of our society’s fissures, and a collection of proposals and reflections on what should come after: how we can truly renew our civilization in this post-COVID world.

Anne Snyder, editor-in-chief
Susannah Black, senior editor

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Imagining The Future
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Race
Education
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Community
Family
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Partners & Affiliates

This is a project founded upon collaboration, as an expression of unity amidst plurality and respectful engagement in the context of diverse perspectives. We welcome additional partners and affiliates.

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Leadership Foundations
Catholic Social Thought
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Catholic Social Thought
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The Awakening Project
Seymour Institute
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