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We live in a culture that asks, almost reflexively, what something is for. But a cross-stitch of a Melbourne laneway, or a photograph of daily medication, or a digital poster of flowers earns its place simply by existing. You can't sell them as a solution to a problem. No spreadsheet would categorise them as useful, and that’s the point. Jacques Ellul once warned that Western culture had become captive to technique, to the relentless question of efficiency. Under that kind of

Somewhere in a Vietnamese village, a young Australian filmmaker sits down opposite a fortune teller and asks her to read his future in a deck of cards. Somewhere else, another is being taught how to curse her rivals by a New Orleans witch, mostly in jest, but not entirely. Somewhere else again, a young woman kneels in a Lithuanian forest taking part in a pagan ceremony that predates Christianity by a very long way, because the internet had started to make her feel unwell and

This week, Amy and Tom Footson and I attended the Exponential on the Gold Coast, a conference that gathers church planters, pastors and denominational leaders from around the world to learn about how the church multiplies through planting churches that plant churches. It was so encouraging to be there with 800 other people who share a passion for church planting in Australia. Here are ten things that stayed with me. 1. We all need to be asking, "What part is God calling me to