But I was very warmly received, as an enthusiastic crowd attended my lecture. The talk was also live-streamed to thousands of viewers worldwide, and as I write this, the video has nearly 500,000 views. The topic I spoke on was “How to Have a Religious Argument.” I decided not to address any particular theological theme in an apologetic manner, but rather to step back and consider how we might begin to approach the discussion of religious issues.

Like Facebook’s headquarters, the Google campus looked like the kind of world that millennials would build if you gave them infinite amounts of money: lots of open space, a gym, napping pods in the work areas, music rooms, etc. I will confess that, as I explored both facilities, I often smiled, wondering what my no-nonsense, Greatest-Generation father would have made of all of it. But then I reminded myself that I was touring the workplaces of arguably the most successful, culture-influencing operations on the planet. So if napping and bike-riding help, more power to them.