This week we sit down with a very atypical guest: Michael Rudzena, founding pastor of The Good Shepherd in Gramercy Park. The conversation was fascinating. It started with the exploration of desire — where it comes from, who gets to have it, and what happens when an entire industry is built on stirring it up. Michael brings in René Girard's idea that all desire is borrowed, Walter Brueggemann's read on the scripts we live by without noticing, and a version of Christianity that treats the phone in your pocket as real competition for the soul. Marketing and ministry, it turns out, are running close to the same playbook: both are in the business of loading meaning onto want. Expect luxury branding, scapegoats, and an uncomfortable question about who's actually responsible for what the feed does to people.