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Is Technology-Worship America's New Religion? [The Pugcast]

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4.6949 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today the Pugs discuss a provocative essay in the English publication, AirMail by Tara Isabella Burton. In this article she explores a new and very self-conscious religious disposition that is taking hold among tech elites in Silicon Valley. While there has been some buzz about a revival of interest in Christianity there, this is something very different, somewhat Gnostic, and very neopagan. Join the pugs as they reflect on it.

 

Article Referenced: https://airmail.news/issues/2025-5-24/the-view-from-herefbclid=IwY2xjawKsh8NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEyVnZXc29rSGpwaEFsQjRsAR5DHSu0LY04GYS7rDcYlDWzeZXQYiZ7OxvHCNAxLWdcqmfN05x5VHG8P2U6Ww_aem_Oj0e41ftR3pRfMQGqMQrhA

 

 

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to this episode of Theology Podcast. I'm C.R. Wiley, I'm a pastor, serving at

0:07.7

Church in the Pacific Northwest, and I'm also a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine. By the way,

0:12.4

while I'm thinking about it, the podcast is going to be at the PCA General Assembly in Chattanooga,

0:19.1

and we're going to be conducting some live interviews there.

0:22.7

So if you're going to be there, please stop by. We're going to be at the SHM Architects

0:27.6

booth doing some shows, and then at the American Reformer booth as well. Anyway, that's enough

0:32.8

about that. So, Glenn, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? I'm Glenn Sunshine. I am a retired history professor, specializing in the Reformation and sort of medieval too.

0:45.2

I am a senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian World View, and I have my own ministry, every square inch ministries where I write, I do substack, I do freelance teaching,

0:57.2

I do all kinds of stuff.

0:59.2

Great. Tom.

1:00.5

I'm Tom Price. I teach theology, Christian ethics at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and a few

1:06.3

other places and do some writing, speaking, teaching, preaching, and a whole host of other things.

1:12.4

Okay, great. Well, today we're going to be reacting to an article that is in the English or the

1:20.3

UK magazine, online magazine. I imagine there's also a physical publication because I think

1:26.8

this publication has been around a while

1:28.3

called airmail and there is a item here it's an editorial and it's entitled the view from here

1:35.9

and then the subtitle is is silicon valley a bastion of rationalism or the cradle of a strange

1:43.7

new faith this is by by Tara Isabella Burton,

1:47.3

and it was published on May 24th, so not too long ago. Let me begin with just the opening paragraph,

1:55.2

and I think it sets it up nicely. And it's not a real long article. It only takes about four

1:59.6

minister read, but there's a lot to talk about.

2:03.1

So it begins, even as America welcomes its first native-born pope.

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