MORTON T. KELSEY is an Episcopalian priest, now a professor emeritus of the University of Notre Dame. He is nationally recognized and sought after as a theologian, psychologist, educator, priest, and man of prayer. The last designation in particular reflects the intense interest Kelsey has sparked by reintroducing and reintegrating the spiritual-meditative-mystical tradition of the church into modern life in general and professional pastoral practice in particular. Isaiah 11 contains the classic passage of the wolf dwelling with the lamb through the leadership of the little child. Kelsey uses the often-neglected spiritual level of interpretation of the text and addresses himself to the issue of personal healing and wholeness in his sermon A Little Child Shall Lead Them.

A few years ago, I…