This Is Our City

To find out what lies on the global digital horizon, a visit to Palo Alto, seat of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay area, is in high order. The headquarters of Hewlett-Packard, Facebook, the first Apple store, and tech powerhouse Stanford University, Palo Alto is also home to many Christians who combine a spirited California evangelicalism (think John Ortberg’s Menlo Park Presbyterian) with an investment in their community’s booming biotechnology business. How will their beliefs answer biotech’s fundamental claims about human destiny and the limits of control?