Denison Forum
Dr. Ryan Denison
San Francisco has long been one of America’s most irreligious cities, with Silicon Valley at the center of that resistance to faith. For most of the last decade, roughly half of tech workers identified as either atheist or agnostic. Yet, that resistance to God—and the gospel in particular—has begun to soften in recent years.
Christians have always been present within the tech industry but, for a time, most felt the need to keep their faith private lest it make them an oddity at best and a pariah at worst. Or at least that was the perception. Believers like Trae and Michelle Stephens felt a greater degree of comfort living out their faith than most, though even they recall often feeling like the “token Christians in the room” when among their peers.
That feeling is part of what led the couple to help start the ACTS 17 Collective last year.
ACTS 17 is both an acronym—Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society—as well as a callout to the passage in Acts where Paul shares the gospel at the Areopagus. Their hope is to take a similar approach in reaching out to the intelligentsia of their day, and God has been using them to do just that. More Here
