To slightly rephrase Professor Williams's initial question, let me ask: “What, indeed, is our profession?” From my undergrad days to my current lot as a graduate student, I have looked to the front of the classroom (usually from the back row, admittedly, but for the most part paying attention), and witnessed a variety of stated and unstated professions—made as teacher, scholar, one of the faithful (or one of no faith), citizen, etc. Williams's lecture reminds us that the individual in front of the classroom has not one profession, but many. One of our professions comes from our first-order religious experience, which is quite separate from our other professions as scholars and teachers. The latter professions, based around second-order reflection, have traits such as the fact that “as teachers we are agents of development of a fundamental human characteristic.” We also have a profession that simultaneously comes out of our first-order experience of being citizens of a society—in fact, a number of interconnected societies and groups—and our second-order experience rooted in the need to constantly construct and renew the meaning and purpose of these groups. This is seen in Williams's definition of citizens as “free individuals who will be wise [enough] to govern themselves and society.” While much in his lecture provokes discussion, it was the question of what we are professing that piqued my interest, pushing me toward a few questions of my own.