For the past two weeks I have been working on something that might be the largest vision in scope I have ever attempted. I want to share it here because this space is where I think out loud about the things that matter most to me, and in a way, this matters more than anything I have written about my personal life.
This is about something greater than myself.
I’m reading a book called Know. Be. Live. A 360° Approach to Discipleship in a Post-Christian Era put out by Impact 360° Institute. The book addresses the obstacles to deep discipleship and spiritual formation within Gen Z.
As I read it, it became a problem that I could not stop thinking about.
Now, if you have read my testimony, you know how I got here. Most people who come to faith are carried there by family, by community, by a church that got to them young. I came from the other way. I came to faith at 43, after years as a committed Unitarian Universalist, a framework that gave me every intellectual permission to dismiss Christianity as a relic. What finally broke that was research: apologetics, the historical case for the resurrection, watching Mike Winger videos, listening to Frank Turek take questions from skeptical college students with patience and precision.
And many such people.
By August 16, 2023, the leap of faith required had become very small. I had simply followed the evidence further than I expected it to go.
After that I kept studying because Scripture was transforming me. The deeper that went, the more I wanted to be able to reach the skeptics I had left behind. I knew there were people out there carrying the same questions I had, assuming Christianity had no serious answers.
That desire sat quietly in me for almost three years. Two weeks ago, I finally did something with it.
What I Spent Two Weeks Writing
I spent the last two weeks writing a vision document for a platform I have tenatively named AfterPew2.0 — a free mobile app built specifically for Christian young adults in the 17-to-22 window, the years when faith faces its greatest pressure.
And many young believers face it entirely alone.
The research behind it is sobering. Roughly half of young adults who grew up in church step away from faith during their late teens and twenties. The erosion typically begins around sixteen, years before the hardest opposition arrives. By the time a young believer sits in a college lecture hall and hears their faith dismissed by someone with credentials and confidence, the drift is often already underway.
The answers exist. Young believers are sent into the hardest years of their faith without them.
I know what it is to need those answers and not know where to find them. I know what it is to want to believe and feel like intellectual honesty is standing in the way. I also know what it is to discover that the faith you dismissed has serious answers. I believe the culture shaping young people today is far more intentional about deconstructing faith than the church has been about defending it.
AfterPew 2.0 is built from that experience.
What It’s Designed to Do
The platform brings together what young believers currently have to find on their own, or never find at all.
Curated apologetics content from the strongest voices in the field, organized around the questions real people actually ask. Live one-on-one practice rooms where two believers spar, one defending the faith, one playing skeptic. Watching someone else make the argument builds familiarity. Attempting it yourself, in a safe space, failing and trying again, builds fluency. Daily Scripture-based games that make formation a habit. A peer community built for accountability and honest conversation.
And a direct connection to local churches and campus ministries, because the platform is designed as a launchpad into real community, a supplement designed to send people toward it.
Nothing like this exists yet. All the pieces are out there, scattered across the internet, never assembled in one place for the generation that needs them most.
Why I Am Sharing This
I am sharing this here, with you, because you are the people I think out loud with. You have walked this journey with me through the studying, the questions, the slow work of building a life on something real. You know where I have been.
What I am writing now is the next chapter of it.
I do not have a team yet. I do not have funding. I have a vision document, a manifesto, an investor pitch, and a conviction that this platform needs to exist before another cohort of young believers walks into the hardest years of their faith unprepared.
I also have something I did not have three years ago.
The experience of being the person this platform is built for.
I was the skeptic who needed the arguments. I was the one carrying questions I assumed Christianity couldn’t answer. I found the answers, scattered across the internet, and they changed my life.
AfterPew 2.0 is my attempt to make sure the next person finds them in one place.
Final Thought:
If any of this resonates with you, if you know a young believer in that window, if you have watched someone drift and wondered what could have held them, if you are a young believer yourself and something in this description feels like what you have been looking for, if you build apps or know someone who does and this vision moves you, I would love to hear from you.
I am praying that if this is His will, God puts the right people in front of me so we can bring it to life.
This is what I am working toward. This is what I am hoping for. And I thought you should know.
— Bryan
