All We Have Is Time

Being busy about being unbusy

Early in my Christian life my Methodist pastor, the Reverend Russell B. Foote, called me, a teenager, to see how I was doing. He’d heard reports of some distress, and in a fifteen minute phone call left a lasting impression of what pastoral discipleship and care was all about.

Reverend Foote’s colleague across town, Lutheran pastor Thomas Stroeh opened h…