Introduction

Jessica Hooten Wilson offers a different vision of education, one that is based on an apprenticeship to tradition and oriented toward a contemplative life both for educators and students. Moving toward this vision creates a university system that orders its teachers and students to a good beyond themselves. The prayer repeats over and over again, our little lives are big problems, these we place upon your altar. For some there is no discipline to hold them steady in the waiting and the minds reject the noiseless invasion of your spirit. We do not know how to be who we are called to be. Pour out upon us whatever our spirits might need of shock, life, release that we might fight strength for tomorrow