Photo: Studiomill Silence, Solitude and the City The title of the book was The Divine Conspiracy. It examines Jesus’ strategy for developing a corps of agents to spread the principles of His Kingdom here in this broken world

Photo: Luke Partridge Do you enjoy flea markets? Have you been known to frequent thrift stores? Does your car automatically slow to a halt when you pass a garage sale

Photo: Fleur Suijten Do you ever have days when your life seems cluttered with difficult situations? I do, and there are mornings when I would rather pull the blankets back over my head than to face problems that seem to pop up out of nowhere. When I encounter these types of days I think about a game I used to play called, “whack-a-mole.” The game consisted of twelve little “holes” that mechanical moles would pop up from. The player would stand poised and ready with a foam rubber mallet and attempt to whack each mole that popped his head out. The premise of the game was quite simple; when a mole pops up, whack it back down.