In this episode of Yours Truly I sit down with Adam and Wambui for some Conversation Craft, — two people who met across continents and found Christ through the ruins of modern spirituality, the chaos of academia, and the burnout of Silicon Valley optimization.

Wambui’s story begins in Nairobi and winds through NYU and the self-designed religion of postmodern life — yoga, myth, therapy, and self-curation — until everything collapsed.

Adam’s story runs through the hyper-productivity of startup culture — quantified self, meditation-as-performance, the endless search for “flow.”

Both hit the same wall: the exhaustion of being their own gods.

We talk about:

NYU, wokeness, and the failure of self-made meaning

Silicon Valley spirituality and the religion of optimization

Why “build your own religion” always breaks

Orthodoxy, liturgy, and the beauty of a faith that doesn’t center on the self

The mystery of Communion as healing for a fractured digital world

This isn’t a conversion story as much as it is a mirror — for anyone trying to make sense of their own collapse and renewal in the postmodern world.

From Postmodern Chaos to Communion isn’t just a title — it’s the movement of this whole conversation.

Mentioned in this Episode

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and Modern Collapse

Silicon Valley Eschatology

Orthodox Liturgy and the Beauty of Limits

Jordan Peterson, Paul VanderKlay, and the Estuary conversation

The “Algorithm of Salvation”

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