Silicon Valley's Christ-curious moment: The evangelical groups courting tech elites

Silicon Valley's Christ-curious moment: The evangelical groups courting tech elites

SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) — 'Whatever you're doing here in San Francisco is more important than everything everybody's doing in Christian work in the rest of the world, combined,' said tech billionaire Peter Thiel in a recent lecture for evangelical group ACTS 17.

Silicon Valley’s Christ-curious moment: The evangelical groups courting tech elites

By Religion News Service SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) — In early 2025, when Paul Taylor left the Palo Alto church he’d pastored for 18 years to focus on nonprofit work, he didn’t know where it would lead. Certainly, Taylor didn’t anticipate that, in September, he would be invited to a wood-paneled venue in downtown San Francisco, where the founder of PayPal expounded on the Antichrist for four Mondays in a row. The sold-out lecture series, delivered by t…