It’s May 15th, 2026 — recording live from what Bo accurately described as Jurassic Park, because Raven the chicken was laying an egg on my thigh while we were discussing the Antichrist, and Marceline was on my back pecking my head before we hit record, and I just want you to know that this is the actual context in which serious theological work is being done. Bo opened with a high, a low, and a learn — Randy Woodley has a new book coming July 14th that you should preorder, a dust storm and semi-truck fire in Twin Falls gave Bo a terrifying glimpse of what environmental collapse looks like up close, and he discovered a group called Acts 17 that he wishes he’d never learned about. We did an either/or — Acts 17 or Acts 29, would you rather get rid of one — which turned into a genuinely useful history of hipster reformed church planting, Silicon Valley spiritual warfare birthday parties with Peter Thiel as guest preacher, and Tripp’s long-gestating idea for a class on Christian philosophical theology using Acts 17 as the entry point and process, Tillichian, and radical theologies as the three lenses. Then we finally got to it. Stage four. Bo recapped the first three stages of Antichrist theology — amorphous spirit, personified figure, dispensationalist Voltron super-villain — and Tripp walked through Peter Thiel’s actual biography: born in Frankfurt, childhood in a pro-Nazi enclave in what is now Namibia, Stanford student newspaper culture warrior, Girard’s prize pupil, PayPal as libertarian financial liberation tool, Facebook as the memetic machine, Palantir as Minority Report for mass surveillance, the 2008 crash that turned a techno-libertarian into an authoritarian, Curtis Yarvin and the CEO monarchy, and then finally the lectures — where Thiel inverts the entire dispensationalist tradition and declares that Greta Thunberg and AI safety advocates are the legionaries of the Antichrist, that the restrainer of the apocalypse and its source are both America, and that unregulated technological acceleration is the only thing standing between us and the one-world totalitarian state. The irony — that the man building a global surveillance empire keeps warning about a global surveillance empire — did not go unremarked. Tripp named it theological shielding for unrestricted greed. Bo named it the upside down. Both are correct. Tim Whitaker of The New Evangelicals joins next week for territorial warfare. Baudrillard summer reading club is apparently in the works. Bo gave the benediction. If this is the end times, he’ll be your Huckleberry.

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