prayers need to be “figured” in fresh ways, and (2) that the field of imagination for such “figuring” is scripture. As a result my prayers offered in class have increasingly become prayers “back to scripture”—a practice I learned alongside my friend David Grant, a practice more readily undertaken by a scripture teacher than colleagues in other disciplines. Offering and leading such prayers is one thing—it is an attempt to gather the energies and imaginations of students into a shared act of faithful