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
At a time when colleges and universities are under extraordinary political pressure to be silent rather than prophetic, this volume makes the case for why and how the religious commitments of the institutions and faculty often compel prophetic education. Experienced and pedagogically thoughtful faculty share ways of teaching that help students see and face suffering and injustice, find their voices, and be active agents of hope in the world. Thomas M. Landy, Director, Rev. Michael C. McFarland S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross, and founder of Collegium, a colloquy on faith and intellectual life Has there been a more urgent time for cultivating the prophetic imagination in our teaching and learning spaces? Has the need for courage that emboldens us to better understand and accompany those we teach been greater? How deeply do we long to channel the kind of hope that attunes our students for the good amidst the roar and tumult of these days and calls forth their gifts to grow it? If your pedagogical vocation, or even your weary soul, needs a shot of any of these, the wisdom curated here is sure to deliver. Maureen O'Connell, professor of Christian ethics at La Salle University, and author of If These Walls Could Talk: Community Muralism and the Beauty of Justice (Liturgical Press, 2012) and Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness (Beacon Press, 2021)
