people at or near the centers of their lives where God and the human, faith and the absurd, love and indifference were tangled in daily traffic jams, the less it seemed that the way I had been going about teaching made much difference, and the more that teaching them to pray did.”2 Or, as he said in another context, the three pastoral acts are “praying, reading Scripture, and giving spiritual direction.”3 Formation, then, is the core, but then the complications begin, leading even the most accomplished