You’d expect power to push them away from faith. But Elon Musk just said: “The Creator.” Dan Cathy closes on Sundays. David Green gave away $14B. Peter Thel believes in the resurrection. The richest are bending the knee. Didn’t see that coming, did you?

The richest man on the planet is sitting in a podcast chair, and for once, he isn’t talking about launching a rocket to Mars or wiring a chip into a human brain. He’s just… still. Looking dead at the camera. His hands rest on his knees, fingers spread like he’s about to catch something. The interviewer leans in.

The question is simple. The kind of question you’d ask a kid at a campfire. Who do you look up to the most? And Elon Musk doesn’t laugh. He doesn’t pivot to a joke about artificial intelligence. He says two words, low and flat, like he’s stating the boiling point of water. The creator. December 2025.

That clip didn’t just go viral. It split the internet down the middle. Atheist forums froze. Christian pages reposted it like a wartime dispatch. And here’s the detail most people scrolled past: when she followed up—You don’t believe in God though, do you?—he didn’t dodge. He said, Well, I believe the universe came here for a reason. That’s not a conversion. That’s not an altar call. But it’s also not nothing. It’s the sound of the tectonic plates of power beginning to groan.

Here’s the bet I’m making with you right now. By the end of this, you’re going to realize that something has been happening in the penthouses and private equity boardrooms of America for the last five years, and almost every news outlet has been looking the wrong way. You think success replaces prayer.

You think power kills dependence. You think the penthouse is the new pew. And for most of history, you would have been right. But I’ve got eight names. Eight of the wealthiest, most powerful people on Earth. And they are moving toward Jesus. Some loud. Some in total secrecy. And number three on this list? I promise you: you will not see that one coming. You will scroll back up to read his name twice.

Let’s start with the one you already know, but I promise you don’t know the hardest part. Dan Cathy runs Chick-fil-A. His net worth sits around $10.5 billion. And the official corporate purpose statement of his company is not to make a profit or to dominate fast food.

It says, and I am quoting directly: “We’re here to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that’s entrusted to us.” That’s not a church brochure. That’s the operating charter of the highest-revenue-per-store chain in America. They close every single location on Sunday. Every one. 2,900 stores. Dark.

And they still generate more money in six days than McDonald’s does in seven. In 2012, a reporter asked Dan about his stance on biblical family values. He looked the man right in the eye and said, “Guilty as charged.”

You remember what happened next. The culture lost its absolute mind. Protests. Boycotts. Mayors in blue cities said Chick-fil-A wasn’t welcome. And Dan Cathy didn’t flinch. He didn’t issue a clarifying apology.

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Now move from chicken to craft supplies. Because if you think Dan Cathy is bold, David Green makes him look like a tourist. David Green started Hobby Lobby in 1970 with a $600 l o an . S i x h u n d re dd o ll a rs . T o d a y, hi sco m p an y d oeso v er$ 8 billion a year in revenue. Fifty thousand employees. Over a thousand stores.

The man is worth fourteen billion dollars. And in October of 2022, he gave it all away. Not some of it. All of it. He moved one hundred percent of the voting stock of Hobby Lobby into a trust. He wrote an op-ed in Fox News. The title said everything: I Chose God. His exact words were: “God was the true owner of my business. When I realized I was just a steward, it was easy to give away my ownership.”

Easy. A fourteen-billion-dollar decision. And he calls it easy because the theology finally clicked in his bones. The money was never his. The company was never his. He just finally started acting like it.

But here’s the image I can’t shake. During the COVID crash, when everything was collapsing and supply chains were snapping, David Green told an interviewer something he’d never said publicly. He said he literally crawled under his desk in his home office.

Not his conference room. He crawled under the desktop, his back against the wood, and he cried out to God. He didn’t call his CFO. He didn’t call his lawyers. He got on his knees under a desk and prayed like a scared kid. That’s not wealth gospel. That’s a man who knows what the word steward actually means. That’s the open hand again, closing around nothing but air.

Okay, quick pause. If you’re with me this far, I want you to feel the weight of what we just passed. Two billionaires. One gave up Sundays. The other gave up ownership. And they’re not even the wildest entries on this list. Because number three is where this goes from inspiring to absolutely disorienting.

Philip Anschutz is worth over eleven billion dollars. He owns the LA Kings. The LA Galaxy. AEG, the world’s second-largest live entertainment company. He owns the Staples Center. Regal Cinemas. The Washington Examiner. Fortune magazine once compared him to J.P. Morgan. He is one of the most powerful men in American entertainment.

And he is a devout evangelical Christian who has done exactly three formal interviews since 1979. Three. In over forty years. The man drives himself to work in a used sedan. He wears jeans and a Timex watch. One biographer called him “abnormally normal.” You have heard of every single venue and team he owns. You have probably never heard of him. That is by design.

In 2004, in one of those rare public remarks, Anschutz explained why he financed Walden Media, the company behind The Chronicles of Narnia and Amazing Grace. He said, “I decided to stop cursing the darkness.” He didn’t write a check to a seminary.

He used his billions to put Narnia in every multiplex in America. He funded explicitly Christian-themed movies for mass audiences. Not a sermon. Not a tract. Just the story of Aslan dying and coming back to life, flashing on ten thousand screens at once.

He also founded the Foundation for a Better Life. You have seen their billboards. Pass It On. A kid helping an old woman cross the street. A firefighter running into a burning building. Faith, integrity, compassion. That’s him. Working in the background. No press tour. No branding play. Just conviction. Just the open hand, open so wide you don’t even see it.

Now we get to the one that will make Silicon Valley squirm. Pat Gelsinger was the youngest vice president in Intel’s history. He ran VMware. Then he became CEO of Intel, one of the most powerful positions in global technology. And he approached every single one of those roles with one question for the people around him.

May I pray for you? That is what he would ask. In meetings. In hallways. At industry conferences. He prayed with more than ten thousand executives over the course of his career. Ten thousand. In Silicon Valley, the most secular zip code in America.

When he was running VMware, with thirteen thousand employees, he said, “That’s the church God has given me to be a minister to.” Not a metaphor. He meant it. He co-founded a ministry called Transforming the Bay with Christ. The stated goal: bring one million people to faith in the Bay Area.

Then December 2024 happened. Intel’s board forced him out after a brutal stretch. Fifteen thousand layoffs. The stock cratering. And what did Gelsinger do? He did not write a bitter memoir. He did not go on a press tour to settle scores.

He posted Proverbs 4:25-26 on social media and called for twenty-four hours of prayer and fasting. Not for himself. For the employees Intel had just laid off. By March of 2025, he had taken the executive chair of Glue, a faith-based AI platform serving over a hundred and forty thousand church leaders. His stated mission? To hasten the coming of Christ’s return through technology.

At a speech at Colorado Christian University, he said, “Christians in Gutenberg’s time embraced the great invention of the day to literally change humanity. We must do the same today.” That is not a man who pivoted to faith after losing his job.

That is a man who has been building toward this for forty years. And the open hand? He’s not clinging to the CEO title. He let it go. And then he reached for something heavier.

Let me stop here for a second. Because I know what some of you are thinking. These are the obvious ones. The evangelical billionaires. The ones who put fish on their business cards.

And you’re right. The first four are solid. They are the foundation. But the next four? The next four are why I wrote this. Because the last four names on this list do not fit into your political box. They do not fit into your religious box. And number five? Number five is going to make half of you angry and the other half deeply, profoundly uncomfortable.

Peter Thiel co-founded PayPal. He co-founded Palantir. He was the first outside investor in Facebook. He is a libertarian. He lives in San Francisco. And he is openly gay. On paper, he is the absolute last person you would expect to profess faith in Jesus Christ.

And he doesn’t just profess it casually. When asked directly, point blank, what he means when he says “Christianity is true,” Thiel said, “I believe in the resurrection of Christ.” Not the moral teachings. Not the vibe. The bodily resurrection of Christ. I want you to sit with that for a second. An eleven-billion-dollar tech titan in the epicenter of secular culture, saying the body of Jesus of Nazareth left that tomb physically. He believes in the empty grave.

Thiel studied under René Girard, one of the most important Christian philosophers of the twentieth century, at Stanford. Christianity is not a side interest for him. He says it is “the prism through which I look at the whole world.” Every company he has named is pulled from Lord of the Rings—Palantir, Mithril—a work written by a devout Catholic.

But here is where it gets even more intense. In May of 2024, Thiel gave a fifty-five-minute fireside chat at Y Combinator President Gary Tan’s home, which by the way is a converted church, on the meaning and significance of Jesus’s death and resurrection. To two hundred Silicon Valley executives. One attendee said later, “I did not know Peter Thiel was a Christian. I didn’t know Christianity could sound like that.”

And then in the fall of 2025, Thiel did something that made the secular press choke on its coffee. He led a four-part lecture series on the Antichrist at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Sold out. Off the record. Peter Thiel, lecturing on eschatology in one of the most progressive cities on Earth. Now, look. I know some of you are uncomfortable right now. A gay billionaire professing belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus. That does not fit neatly into anyone’s box. And that is the point. I am not the judge of a man’s heart. His profession of faith is his profession of faith. The fruit—the lectures, the fifty-five-minute talk on the cross, the funding of ministries—that is between him and God. But you cannot deny something real is happening here. The open hand does not check your ID before it gives.

If you think that’s unexpected, wait until you hear how one billionaire brought faith into America’s meat processing plants. John Tyson is the chairman of Tyson Foods. His company processes one out of every five pounds of chicken, beef, and pork eaten in America. A hundred and thirty-nine thousand employees. Massive industrial facilities. And inside those facilities, John Tyson installed something nobody in corporate America expected. Chaplains. Not productivity coaches. Not wellness consultants. Chaplains. Full-time, salaried, seminary-trained chaplains. Prayer services available to workers on the factory floor. A corporate chaplaincy program serving tens of thousands of blue-collar employees across the country. That is faith at scale. That is not writing a check to a church. That is restructuring a Fortune 500 operation around the idea that every worker in that building has a soul worth caring for.

I talked to a former Tyson chaplain once, off the record. He told me about a night shift in a poultry plant in Arkansas. A line worker’s daughter had been taken to the ER by ambulance. The man was still on the line, covered in feathers and blood, because he couldn’t afford to lose the hour of pay. The chaplain found him. Put a hand on his shoulder. Prayed right there next to the conveyer belt. The man didn’t convert to anything. He just cried. And then he went back to work. That is John Tyson’s money at work. Not a stadium. Not a TV broadcast. A hand on a shoulder at two in the morning.

Alright. We are in the final stretch. The last two names. And I have saved the most volatile for the penultimate spot. Because what happened with Elon Musk is not a conversion story. It is a trajectory. And trajectories matter more than snapshots.

Elon Musk sits down with The Babylon Bee, a Christian satire site. They ask him, half-joking, to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior. His response? “If Jesus is saving people, I won’t stand in his way. Sure, I’ll be saved. Why not?” He’s smiling. It’s light. But something is there. Something cracks open.

Elon posts on X. “Jesus taught love, kindness, and forgiveness. I used to think that turning the other cheek was weak and foolish, but I was the fool for not appreciating its profound wisdom.” That is not a joke. That is reflection. You can feel the gears turning.

July 2024. Jordan Peterson interview. Eighteen million views. Elon says, “I do believe that the teachings of Jesus are good and wise. I’m a big believer in the principles of Christianity.” He calls himself a cultural Christian.

October 2024. Tucker Carlson. “I’m culturally Christian. I grew up Christian. I was Anglican. Baptized. Sunday school.”

January 2025. He tells an interviewer, “I’m open to the idea of God.”

See the trajectory? Sure, I’ll be saved to I was the fool to cultural Christian to open to the idea. Each step inching closer. Each statement more serious than the last. And then comes December 2025. The Katie Miller podcast. And she asks him one question. Who do you look up to the most?

The creator.

Four words. From the richest man alive. And then, just this week, February 2026, he posted five more. “I agree with the teachings of Jesus.” Four million views and climbing. Now, I want to be very careful here. This channel does not do what some channels do. I am not going to tell you Elon Musk is saved. I am not going to tell you he is a born-again Christian. I don’t know his heart. That is God’s territory. What I can tell you is this. The trajectory is real. The statements are escalating. And when a man with more influence than almost anyone on earth starts publicly crediting the Creator and affirming the wisdom of Jesus—whether he is fully there yet or not—that is not nothing. That is the ground shifting beneath the feet of the secular age.

Let me land this plane.

You started this thinking billionaires don’t need God. That money and faith are opposites. That the richer someone gets, the less they kneel. And I just gave you eight men who have blown that story to pieces. Dan Cathy, who closes his stores on Sunday and lost nothing. David Green, who gave away fourteen billion dollars and called it easy. Philip Anschutz, who put Narnia in every theater and never took a bow. Pat Gelsinger, who prayed with ten thousand executives and then prayed for the ones who fired him. Peter Thiel, who stands in San Francisco and preaches the bodily resurrection. John Tyson, who put chaplains on the kill floor. And Elon Musk, who looked into a camera and said the two words that might cost him everything.

I said at the beginning that the open hand would come back. Here it is. Every single one of these men had to open their hand. They had to uncurl their fingers from something—control, reputation, money, the approval of the crowd. Dan Cathy opened his hand and let the boycotts come. David Green opened his hand and let fourteen billion dollars fall through. Peter Thiel opened his hand and let his entire tribe call him a traitor. And Elon Musk? He opened his hand and admitted he looks up to someone. Not his own reflection. The Creator.

You don’t have to agree with all of them. You don’t have to like all of them. But you cannot look at this list and still believe the lie that wealth and faith are enemies. The richest people in the world are doing the math in real time, and more of them than you think are coming to the same conclusion. The hand that closes around the world ends up empty. The open hand is the only one that can receive anything at all.

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Now, I need to tell you about the one I almost left off this list. Not because he isn’t important, but because his story is the hardest to verify. And in an age of misinformation, I don’t want to add to the noise. But the evidence is too consistent to ignore. His name is Ken Langone. You may not know him, but you know his store. He co-founded The Home Depot. Net worth: just over seven billion dollars. And Ken Langone is seventy years old, which means he has been rich for a very long time, and he has been a Christian for even longer. But what he did in 2023 made me add him as a bonus ninth name.

Langone sat down for an interview with David Rubenstein. And Rubenstein asked him, straight up, “Do you think rich people go to heaven?” Most billionaires would laugh. They’d pivot. They’d make a joke about Saint Peter checking their portfolio. Ken Langone did not laugh. He leaned forward. He said, “Let me tell you something. I am terrified of one thing. I am terrified that I will stand before God and He will say, ‘Ken, I gave you seven billion dollars to do good with, and you kept it.’” He didn’t say it like a performance. He said it like a man confessing a recurring nightmare. That is the fear that haunts the faithful rich. Not losing their money. Losing their chance to use it.

Langone has given away over a billion dollars. He funds scholarships. He builds hospitals. But he is famous for one small habit. Every week, he goes through his mail himself. Not his assistant. Him. And any letter that asks for help—a medical bill, a funeral cost, a family about to lose their home—he writes a check personally. He does not put it through a foundation. He does not take a tax deduction. He writes a check from his personal account and mails it. He told a reporter once, “I want to feel the paper. I want to lick the stamp. I want to know that my hand moved.” That is the open hand again. Not a wire transfer. A hand. A stamp. A name signed in ink.

I want to pause here and tell you why I wrote this. Because the world is going to tell you a different story tonight. The world is going to tell you that billionaires are all monsters. That wealth is theft. That anyone with a private jet has sold their soul. And listen, I am not a fool. I know there are billionaires who worship only themselves. I know there are fortunes built on blood and exploitation. I have read the same headlines you have. But the lie is not that some billionaires are bad. The lie is that all of them are. The lie is that money and faith are mutually exclusive. And these eight—these nine—men are walking, breathing, spending contradictions to that lie.

Let me give you a final image. It comes from Pat Gelsinger, the former Intel CEO. After he was fired, he didn’t retreat to a yacht. He went to a small church in Oregon. And the pastor asked him to teach a Sunday school class for middle schoolers. Not a keynote. Not a global summit. Middle schoolers. Twelve-year-olds with braces and iPhones. And Gelsinger said yes. He showed up every Sunday with a whiteboard and a box of donuts. He taught them the book of Acts. One of the parents told a local news station, “My son came home and said, ‘Mom, the guy who used to run Intel says God wants me to be brave.’”

That is the hidden kingdom. Not stadiums. Not television specials. A fired CEO in a church basement, drawing stick figures on a whiteboard for a room full of seventh graders. That is the open hand at work. Not reaching up to grab. Reaching down to lift.

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I need to address something directly. Some of you are going to read about Peter Thiel and stop cold. You’re going to say, “But he’s gay. He lives a lifestyle the Bible calls sin. How can you include him on a list of people following Jesus?” That is a fair question. And I am not going to dodge it. The Bible is clear about many things. It is clear about greed. It is clear about pride. It is clear about sexual ethics. And if we are going to hold Peter Thiel to one standard, we have to hold every billionaire on this list to the same standard. Have Dan Cathy and David Green never been greedy for one second? Have Pat Gelsinger and John Tyson never been proud? No. They would be the first to admit they fall short. That is the point of Christianity. It is not a club for the already perfect. It is a hospital for the sick.

Thiel’s profession of faith in the bodily resurrection of Jesus is not nullified by his remaining struggles. None of our professions are nullified by ours. The question is not are they sinless? The question is are they moving toward Him? And by that measure, Thiel is moving. Lecturing on the Antichrist in San Francisco is moving. Funding ministries is moving. Telling two hundred Silicon Valley executives that the tomb was empty is moving. I am not his judge. I am just a reporter of trajectories.

Let me bring this back to Elon Musk one more time. Because his trajectory is the most fragile and the most fascinating. He is not a theologian. He is not a pastor. He is a man who builds electric cars and shoots rockets into the sky and says things on the internet that make his PR team weep. But watch his hands. I have watched every interview I just quoted. And in every single one, when he talks about God, his hands change. They stop gesturing. They stop explaining. They rest. Flat on his thighs. Palms up. Like he is holding something invisible. That is not a tell you can fake. That is the posture of a man who is, for the first time in his life, not trying to solve everything himself.

I want to tell you about a moment that didn’t make the clips. After the Katie Miller interview, someone in the green room asked Elon, off mic, “Are you scared of what people will say?” And he said, “I’ve been canceled twenty times. I don’t care what they say. I care if I’m wrong.” Wrong about what? He didn’t elaborate. But you can fill in the blank. He is a man who built his entire identity on being the smartest person in the room. And now he is looking at the ceiling and saying the two words that smartest-person-in-the-room is not supposed to say: The creator.

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Let’s talk about the social consequence of this shift. Because it matters. If billionaires start taking Jesus seriously—not culturally, not politically, but seriously—it changes how money moves. It changes how companies are run. It changes how power is wielded. Look at David Green. He gave away Hobby Lobby. That is fourteen billion dollars that will never be used to buy a superyacht. That is fourteen billion dollars that will, by the terms of his trust, be used for kingdom purposes in perpetuity. Look at John Tyson. He put chaplains in meat plants. That is a hundred and thirty-nine thousand workers who have access to prayer on the clock. That is not nothing. That is the re-enchantment of the American workplace.

And look at Philip Anschutz. He used his entertainment empire to put Narnia in theaters. He didn’t make a Christian movie. He made a movie about a lion who dies and comes back to life, and he trusted that the story would do the work. That is not the strategy of a culture warrior. That is the strategy of a gardener. Plant the seed. Walk away. Trust the rain.

I have a friend who works in private wealth management in Dallas. He handles money for families worth over a billion dollars combined. He told me something six months ago that I have not been able to forget. He said, “Ten years ago, when a client mentioned God, it was always about prosperity. ‘Pray for my deal to close.’ ‘Pray for my stock to go up.’ Now? They call me and say, ‘I have too much. Help me give it away without ruining my kids.’” He said the question has shifted from how do I get more? to how do I die empty? That is the open hand again. Not clenched around the future. Open. Empty. Ready to receive the only thing you can’t buy: a good death.

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I am going to end this where we started. With Elon Musk. With two words. And with a question that I am going to leave hanging in the air like smoke.

The question is not whether Elon Musk is saved. I don’t know. Neither do you. The question is not whether Peter Thiel is a perfect Christian. He is not. Neither are you. The question is not whether these eight men have done bad things with their money. They have. So have you, relative to your resources.

The question is this: If the richest, most powerful people on earth are quietly, publicly, awkwardly starting to look up at the ceiling and say creator—what is the rest of us supposed to do with that? We can mock them. We can doubt them. We can pick apart their theology and their politics and their tax returns. Or we can do something much harder. We can take them seriously. We can ask ourselves the same question they are asking themselves. What if I am the steward, not the owner? What if I am holding this life with open hands? What if I look up to someone who is not me?

The richest man on the planet sat in a podcast chair. He looked dead at the camera. And he said two words that his empire was built to avoid. The creator. He didn’t say it like a punchline. He didn’t say it like a brand. He said it like a man who has run out of smaller answers. And that, more than any rocket launch or electric car, is the most dangerous thing Elon Musk has ever done. Because once you say it out loud, you can’t unsay it. Once you admit you look up, you have to admit you are not the ceiling.

The open hand. The empty grave. The two words that change everything. The creator.

Now go be a steward of whatever small thing He has put in your hand today. It’s probably not fourteen billion dollars. But it’s yours. And the question is the same. Are you clenching it? Or are you opening it?

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