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Acton Line: Silicon Valley Revival?

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4.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Dan Churchwell, director of programs and education at the Acton Institute, and A. Trevor Sutton, senior pastor of St. Luke Lutheran Church, about their essay “The Gospel According to Silicon Valley,” which is the cover story for the Summer 2025 issue of Religion & Liberty. Is there a Christian […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to ActonLine, a product of the Acton Institute promoting a free and virtuous society.

0:12.1

I'm Mark Townsend, producer.

0:15.0

You can find additional resources in the show notes for this episode, as well as previous episodes of Actonline at

0:21.4

acton.org slash podcasts. If you have a comment or an idea for a future episode, you can email us

0:28.7

at podcast at actin.org. Actonline is available to stream on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and

0:36.6

actin.org.

0:41.9

Welcome. My name is Dan Huber, Librarian and Research Association at the Acton Institute.

0:46.5

Welcome to Acton Line. Today I have Dan Churchwell, director of programs and education here at the

0:51.8

Acton Institute, and I have Pastor Trevor Sutton, who is senior pastor at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Lansing, Michigan. He also teaches theology

1:01.6

at Concordia University Irvine. We have a fun thing to talk about today. Dan and Pastor Sutton

1:08.6

co-authored the cover story to the latest Religion and Liberty,

1:14.6

the Gospel According to Silicon Valley.

1:16.5

We're going to be talking all things, technology and religion, revivals, a little bit of history,

1:24.2

a little bit of contemporary news items.

1:26.7

It's going to be an interesting mix.

1:29.0

Dan, Pastor Sutton, thanks you for being with us.

1:32.3

Yeah, pleasure to be here.

1:33.2

It's a joy to have the conversation.

1:35.2

So I guess the first question is, you know, because we're talking about this piece,

1:42.0

we're going to range a little further out from that.

1:52.0

But I guess the best way to take that, that bird's eye view would be to ask you, what was the cause of this piece?

1:56.7

Was there a news item, something that you two had been thinking through, discussing together?

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