Around the Web - An Apologia for Narration

New Covenant School is a PK2 – 12 private Classical Christian school in Anderson, SC.

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“[The] faculty of attention…directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.”

-Simone Weil

A friend recently recommended Simon Weil’s “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God.” In it, the twentieth century French philosopher famously argues that attention and prayer are nearly synonymous. Certainly, it is easy to see that attention and prayer are related and that prayer without attention is a contradiction.