Welcome to The Light, your quiet hour for reflection.
Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has spent three years delivering invitation-only lectures on the Antichrist. A Fordham scholar's careful analysis suggests Thiel is weaving theology and technology into something worth sitting with — a serious, if unsettling, reckoning with power and apocalypse in our present moment.
From the architecture of belief to its youngest inhabitants — a new Barna study finds that Christian teenagers who carry the most doubt are often those engaging their faith most seriously. Rather than drifting, these young people may be growing precisely because they refuse easy answers, holding tension as a form of faithfulness.
And in cinema, a Romanian film called Fjord has arrived quietly and powerfully. Directed by Cristian Mungiu, it follows an evangelical family who relocates to Norway and faces persecution for their convictions. That such a film exists in two thousand twenty six — one that dignifies rather than diminishes believers — feels itself like a kind of question worth asking.
That's this hour's reflection. Carry the light gently.
