The semester is over and one of the last things I did this autumn was to teach a class of lay people and clergy preparing to work as spiritual directors. To the dismay of at least one of my students, I noted that as spiritual directors they might be the only people in their directees' lives who might help them understand the Christian faith and its relevance for their daily lives. "Be prepared," I explained, "to discover that even the church people who come to you for direction may know little or nothing about their faith or how to apply it to their lives."
The student who was the most dismayed, protested, "But ministers graduate from seminaries and you are charged with their preparation. Why would they know so little about their faith?"
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