Ministry in the name of Christ is an exhausting business. It seems to demand a constancy that is not in us. In the movie Groundhog Day the character played by Bill Murray lives a single day over and over again. During one incarnation of that day he happens to catch a young boy falling out of a tree. From then on, when that moment in the day comes around again, he feels compelled t…
The Christian Century, Watching from the Boat, by Martin Copenhaver