Beneath the Roar and Tumult

Rachel Wheeler is associate professor of spirituality at the University of Portland and secretary of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. She has a PhD in Christian spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union, an MA in theology, specializing in monastic studies, from Saint John's School of Theology, and an MA in English from Humboldt State University. She is the author of Desert Daughters, Desert Sons: Rethinking the Christian Desert Tradition (Liturgical Press, 2020). Her most recent book is Radical Kinship: A Christian Ecospirituality (Fortress Press, 2024).Karen E. Eifler is director of Collegium, the national colloquy of faith and intellectual life, and professor emerita of education at the University of Portland. She co-edited this book's companion volume, Becoming Beholders: Cultivating Sacramental Imagination and Actions in College Classrooms.

• ContentsPreface   ixPart I: On the RimEngaging in critical conversations from places where disasters are witnessed, not sufferedRE-UN-DIScover Heuristic: Pedagogical Practices for Imagination and Generative Action   3Elizabeth KeenanSocial Suffering and the Scholarship of Bearing Witness   16Kathleen M. Gallagher-BrauLearning to Scale: Teaching Sustainability as a Spiritually Activated Community Practice   31Christopher J. Cobb“What Moves the Human Heart”: Visual Art as a Catalyst for Healing, Hope, Imagination, and Justice   47Rebecca Berrú Davis“Prophets of a Future Not Our Own”: Toward a Life of Meaning, Purpose, and Learning from the Other through Study Abroad   61Ana Fonseca ConboyTeaching in Our Frightening Time: bell hooks and Spiritual Practices for Classrooms   76William McDonoughEnergized for Freedom: Hospitality and Antiracist Pedagogy   89Mary M. Doyle RocheOut of the Miry Clay: How Catholic Social Teaching Lifts Us from Essentialism, Moral Injury, and Suspicion   104Esteban del RíoPart II: The EpicenterWelcoming who and what have been excluded as we cultivate hospitalityThe Management Exercises: Bringing Our True Selves to Our Real Work   119Kimberly Rae Connor and Richard W. StackmanOpening the Door: Making It Possible for Students to Remain Catholic While Staying True to Themselves   135Anna Lännström and Jessika Crockett-Murphy“Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There”: New Faculty Orientation as Radical Hospitality 146Susanna L. Cantu GregoryTrauma-Informed Pedagogy as Sacred Hospitality   159Jonathan M. BowmanEngaging Religious Diversity: Radical Hospitality in Catholic Universities for the Common Public Good   171Hans GustafsonGrowing Our Belonging with Nursing Students: Creating a Community of Care   185Kala Mayer, Rachel Wheeler, and Karen E. EiflerSaint Andrew’s Abbey: An Experience of Radical Hospitality and Belonging in a Hybrid Graduate Leadership Education Course   193Michael R. Carey and Dũng Q. TrầnManaging the Chaos: Tapping the Jesuit Gifts to Form Novice Teachers   207Thomas KnestrictPart III: The Choice: To Speak or Not to SpeakGenerating creative imagination, ethical discernment, active hope, and meaningful action Learning to Serve: A Neuroscience-Informed Scaffold to Develop Students as Community Leaders   223Nancy A. Michael and T. M. Vanessa Chan-Devaere“Is This Class About Religion?”: Examen-ing Imaginings in Interdisciplinary Courses   239Aaron Van Dyke and Elizabeth BoquetEmpowering Students to Integrate Disciplinary and Religious Wisdom to Help Improve the World   250Rodger NarlochEnriching Education through Interdisciplinary Integration of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition: Reflections on a Faculty Professional Development Project   264Sandra L. Guzman-FosterLiving Ethically in an Unethical World: Teaching Psychology Ethics through a Jesuit and Catholic Lens   277Thomas G. PlanteAcknowledging What Is While Moving Toward What Could Be in Teaching Perspectives on Social Justice   287Anne Pitsch SantiagoHumanizing the Humanities: Bridging Curriculum and Community through Story Work   297Deogratias Fikiri, SJ, and Sarah Wadsworth“grammar of justice, / syntax of mutual aid”: Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogies of Hopeful Action   312Cynthia R. WallaceList of Contributors   327

“Right now, the academy needs this book to reinforce the enduring principles of Catholic social teaching and to give colleagues renewed license to anchor their pedagogy and leadership in these convictions. It reads like a conversation among colleagues, wrestling with how to translate the prophetic into the teachable. Beneath the Roar and Tumult is not just a toolkit for good practice. Its publication is in fact, a compelling example of the prophetic imagination in action.” Donna M. Carroll, President, Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities