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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

Anglican minister and author David Zahl argues in his book Seculosity that, in the secular age everyone still worships something. He says that if we no longer look to God for our identity, our righteousness, and our salvation, we go looking for those things somewhere else. “Seculosity” is the name he gives for that search: looking for self justification, for the feeling that we are enough, worthy, or acceptable, in worldly achievement rather than in God's grace. Seculosity,

Last week, Pauline Hanson used her inaugural address at the National Press Club to call for Australia to become a “monocultural society,” whatever that means. When asked, Liberal party leader Angus Taylor could not even confirm that he supported multiculturalism. What is going on? Into this bizarre discourse, Korean/German philosopher Byung-Chul Han has something important to say: modern society is gradually losing what he calls the Other. By “the Other,” he doesn’t simply me