When Caedmon was taught to read and write, he not only became literate in the basic sense of the word, but literate in the spiritual and prophetic tradition of scripture.  In other words, he became literate in the way that anyone who learns to read and write becomes literate  – in the texts and the belief systems inherent in those texts. If the vision of Nehemiah & Blake is to rebuild the ancient foundation upon which  Caedmon’s literacy was founded, then the vision of Nehemiah & Blake is to rebuild a spiritual literacy.  If a spiritual literacy is intimately connected with learning to read and write, then those most likely to learn are those poor in the skill of literacy.  If lack of literacy is closely connected to levels of poverty, then lack of spiritual literacy is itself a form of poverty.  Those, however, with high levels of literacy other than spiritual are unlikely to recognise the need of the latter in themselves.  Jesus said, however, that he came not to heal the righteous, but the sick.