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Search Party

Three college students in an Agentic AI class are searching for God three different ways — wide, deep, and not at all. Their class teaches graph search; their lives become one. They find out the White Jesus, the Black Jesus and the chakra being Chen meditates with are faces of one Light — teleport their minds to two futures — and bring the good one home. An animated comedy about faith, identity, AI and three questions: Where you at? Where you trying to get to? How you getting there?

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Watch in order. Then do the activity.

Each episode asks the same three questions in a new place — a church, a spirit world, a classroom, two futures. Every one comes with an activity, a page to journal, and questions to talk through with your people.

White Jesus in a Black Church: Which Jesus Is Real? | Search Party Ep 15:58
Episode 1

Where You At?

You can't find a path from a place you won't admit you're standing in.

  • Why the White Jesus on so many church walls is a painting with a history, not a photograph
  • What John 14:6 and Revelation 1:14–15 actually say — read in context
  • The three things every agent (and every person) needs: a state, a goal, a path
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edit_note Activity · Where you at? (the honest map)
  1. Write the image of God you grew up with — where you saw it, who handed it to you.
  2. Write what you actually believe today, in one plain sentence. No church voice.
  3. Write where you're trying to get — and one small step you could take this week.

Journal this

WHERE I'M AT:            ________________________
WHERE I'M TRYING TO GET: ________________________
HOW I'M GETTING THERE:   ________________________
ONE STEP THIS WEEK:      ________________________

Talk about it

  • What image of Jesus did you grow up with? How did it make you feel?
  • Dre calls 'only through him' a VIP line. Is that fair? What else could 'the way' mean?
  • Nia agrees with Dre and still loves her church. Can both be true for you?
  • Where are you honestly at right now?
I Visited 11 Churches in One Weekend Looking for Jesus | Search Party Ep 25:07
Episode 2

Breadth First

Wide is how you learn what's out there. Deep is how you learn what's real. And you need to know when to stop.

  • Breadth-first vs depth-first search — and which one you're doing with your life
  • Why Ethiopian Christian art has painted Christ dark-skinned for centuries
  • What a meditating brain does (theta) — and what binaural-beat science does and doesn't say
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edit_note Activity · Map your search
  1. List every 'node' you've tried in your search — churches, podcasts, practices, people.
  2. Mark each one: how deep did you actually go? (visited / stayed a while / committed)
  3. Circle the one worth going deeper on, and write your stopping rule for it.

Journal this

MY SEARCH STYLE:  wide (BFS) / deep (DFS) / stuck at the start
GOING DEEPER ON:  ________________________
I'LL KNOW I'M THERE WHEN: ________________
I'LL TURN AROUND IF:      ________________

Talk about it

  • Are you more Dre (wide), Chen (deep) or Nia (stuck)?
  • What did the icon chapel teach Dre that eleven parking lots didn't?
  • What's your stopping rule — for prayer, for study, for scrolling?
Black Jesus Meets White Jesus — And They're the Same Light | Search Party Ep 35:34
Episode 3

Same Light

The face is not the point. The Light is.

  • What the Bible says God is — light and spirit — beyond any painted face
  • What most historians agree about the historical Jesus
  • Brains and neural networks: patterns of electrical activity, in carbon and in silicon
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edit_note Activity · Same Light
  1. Write down three images of God you've been handed (a painting, a voice, a feeling).
  2. Next to each, write what it points to — what it's trying to show you.
  3. Write one sentence about the Light underneath all three.

Journal this

THE IMAGE I WAS HANDED: ________________
WHAT IT POINTS TO:      ________________
THE LIGHT UNDERNEATH:   ________________

Talk about it

  • Why do you think both Jesuses said they were 'close'?
  • Does 'God is light' change how you hear John 14:6?
  • Dre asks 'So I'm a chatbot?' — what's the difference between a person and a pattern?
We Teleported to a Future Where AI Divided Everyone | Search Party Ep 45:16
Episode 4

Teleport

The future is a graph, and we're choosing the edges right now.

  • How engagement-optimized feeds can amplify outrage and division
  • Why 'what is this optimizing?' is the most important question about any AI system
  • Futures as a state space: every habit is an edge
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edit_note Activity · Audit your feed
  1. Scroll your main feed for five minutes. Tally: informed me / connected me / made me mad at someone.
  2. Find one account that makes you mad at a group of people. Ask: what is this optimizing?
  3. Follow one voice from outside your 'zone' for a week. Write what changed.

Journal this

WHAT IS THIS OPTIMIZING?  ____________________
WHO DOES IT SORT ME AWAY FROM?  ______________
ONE EDGE I'LL CHOOSE DIFFERENTLY: ____________

Talk about it

  • Brent says they 'personalized' instead of 'sorted.' What's the difference?
  • 'A Black Jesus, not a Black-only Jesus.' What did Dre mean?
  • Which of your daily habits are edges toward the red branch?
The Future Where AI Brings Us Together (The Jetsons Branch) | Search Party Ep 55:04
Episode 5

The Jetsons Branch

Pick a heuristic — does this bring people closer? — and let it choose your next step.

  • A search: how far you've come plus a good guess of how far is left
  • What research says about meditation and stress
  • How a vision becomes a proposal: the three questions as a plan
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edit_note Activity · Write a Harmony proposal
  1. Pick one problem on your campus or block (stress, food, a dirty creek, a divided group).
  2. Answer: where are we at, where are we trying to get, how will we get there?
  3. Test every step with the heuristic: does this bring people closer together?

Journal this

PROBLEM:        ____________________
WHERE WE'RE AT: ____________________
WHERE TO:       ____________________
HOW:            ____________________
HEURISTIC CHECK: does it bring people closer? yes / no

Talk about it

  • Future Brent learned the difference between atmosphere and presence. What is it?
  • What would 'the gold branch' look like on your campus?
  • Brent wanted to vote for his opponent. When has someone else's vision been better than yours?
3 College Students Win the Nobel Prize With AI and Meditation | Search Party Ep 65:21
Episode 6

Light Speed

Know where you're at, name where you're going, choose how — then build it, together.

  • How a vision becomes a prototype — and why vague prompts break demos
  • The whole season's map: breadth, depth, and a good heuristic
  • Faith and building: the window, the work, the people
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edit_note Activity · Your Harmony Stack
  1. Pick one thing from the season you want to build — a habit, a project, a group.
  2. Write the three questions for it. Make the goal something you could show someone.
  3. Do the first step in the next 48 hours. Tell someone.

Journal this

WHERE YOU AT?            ____________________
WHERE YOU TRYING TO GET? ____________________
HOW YOU GETTING THERE?   ____________________
WHO'S SEARCHING WITH YOU? __________________

Talk about it

  • Ms. Lorraine says the new window is 'still Him.' What changed and what didn't?
  • What was Brent's turn — and what made it real?
  • What's the first thing you'll build, and who's in your search party?
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Viewer study guide

One page per episode: the big idea, scripture, history and a little science underneath it, words to know, an activity, a journal page, and questions to talk about.

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For leaders & groups

Campus ministries, small groups, Bible studies, youth groups, interfaith councils, and teachers of religion, ethics or AI-and-society — students and young adults 16–30. The group leader guide covers how to run it in six weeks or one retreat, discussion flow, and ideas for checking in.

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Outcomes

  • Talk honestly about the images of God we inherited — and the Light they point to
  • Read key passages (John 14:6, Revelation 1:14–15, 1 John 1:5, John 4:24, Acts 17:28) in context
  • Recognize breadth-first, depth-first and stuck patterns in a spiritual search
  • Ask of any feed or AI system: what is this optimizing?
  • Turn a vision into a plan with the three questions — and build something with others