Called Beyond Our Selves

Foreword by Marjorie Hass Preface Vocations of the Contributors Introduction: Whose Good Life?: Vocation and Communal Flourishing-- Erin VanLaningham PART ONE: Vocation in the Commons 1. Our Call as Response: The Common Good as the Context of Vocation--David Matzko McCarthy 2. Beyond Deep Gladness: Lamenting Trauma, Injustice, and Suffering in Service of the Flourishing of All--Deanna A. Thompson 3. Overturning for the Common Good: Membership and Mutuality in a World of Markets and Meritocracy--Christine Jeske 4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice: Institutional Mission as the Call of the Common Good--Monica M. Smith PART TWO: Transformations of the Common Good 5. The Vocation of Advocacy: Enacting a More Just World--Michelle Hayford 6. Queer Vocation and the Uncommon Good--Geoffrey W. Bateman 7. Expanding the Borders of a Common Good: Transformational Encounters--Jonathan Golden PART THREE: Pedagogies and Practices for the Common Good 8. A Too Uncommon, Common Good: The Role of Deliberation and Dialogue in Vocational Discernment--David Timmerman 9. Reading with Strangers: Our Collective Vocation--Erin VanLaningham 10. A Case for Compassionate Pedagogy: Caring for the Public's Health, Cultivating Sustainable Vocations--Meghan M. Slining PART FOUR: Callings of Campus, Community, and Beyond 11. The University as the (Common) Good Place--Robert J. Pampel 12. The Yarn in the Tapestry: Weaving Memory into History, Vocation, and Our Common Life--Martin Holt Dotterweich 13. What We Are Up Against: Reforming the Vocation of Higher Education for Formation throughout Our Lives--Charles Mathewes Epilogue Towards an Ecology of the Common Good: Vocation in the Gaps--Erin VanLaningham Index of Names Index of Subjects