The Business of Being a Spy

We are in The Market, participants in this Frankenconomy of the West.And as we’ve discussed this week, as we punch in and punch out, as we work the daily grind, it’s our job to hedge against its machinations. It’s our job to live a more spiritually formed, sacrificial way. Some might call this being “in the world but not of the world.” Our French mentor Jacques Ellul puts it another way.

“From another point of view (and here the relation is quite different), he may also be sent out as a spy....