What are you seeing?

Yes, absolutely.

Yeah, I think France is bringing 40% of converts in, or an uptick of about 40%, which is amazing.

In different countries, different religious or inter religious kind of demographics, it's going to look a little bit different in the United States.

Overall, it is being driven by young men, but not only, you know, part of the.

The anecdotal and maybe the quantitative data that I've been able to kind of gather in the two years that I've been there is I've had about 500 conversations with Gen Z or summer repeats, but a lot of them are new people maybe that I'll see maybe one or two times.

And so what's interesting about that is there are a lot of women.

Does that does that work reflect a broader interest in the interface between faith and technology?

Did anybody say that to you?

Yeah, I mean, I was always kind of the nerdy guy that had a book in hand.

Um, and so I wa- had already been, um, because of seminary and everything, I said already th- um, read a good amount of, uh, Catholic theologians, and it really gravitated to them.

But one of the things that kind of, for example, Sola Scriptura is a great example, kind of busted that up for me was not the traditional models that you would hear.

The, uh, the normal places where I would be like, "Well, hey, this verse says, for example, that all scripture is given, um, for profit and doctrine," but it doesn't say that that's the only thing or, you know, maybe some of the passages where you talk about, um, scripture and tradition together, hold fast the traditions that have been delivered unto you, you know, in First and Second Corinthians, something like that.

That's not where Sola Scriptura broke down for me.

As I began to study the gospels, I came across passages, hints, echoes, rabbinical quotes that Jesus was referencing and importing into the gospels.

Mm-hmm.

And

so I grew up in what I call, it was an evangelical home, but I inherited Southern fried theology, which is what I call it.

And a little bit of kind of a Baptist background, some experiential elements like charismatic elements, contemporary worship type non-denom stuff.

And grew up in that environment, loved the Lord, had parents who were wonderfully still married and actually like each other, which is amazing after 55 years.

And strong Christians.

My brother's a Protestant pastor now.

And so I grew up with just the desire to want to serve God and to love God.

What does that look like? And what does the Bible actually say about this? And why has this been done since 33 AD? Yeah,