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α+studio
Faith | Culture | Politics
This isn’t a brand. It’s not a platform.
It’s a studio—a space to wrestle, reflect, create, re-create and share. A studio isn’t where you display a final or finished product, it is the place where you work on your shit.
α+studio At Andrew Thayer Studio, we believe that the intersection of faith and culture is not a battleground—it’s a canvas. This space was born from a deep desire to tell the truth about God, empire, and the world we actually live in. Drawing on theology, history, politics, and art, movies, music, we create resources, reflections, and provocations that aim to unveil what’s often hidden: the prophetic pulse beneath the noise of nationalism, consumerism, and religious comfort.
The lowercase Greek alpha (α) in the name signals a return to origins—Genesis, beginnings, foundations—but also dares to say that every beginning resists finality. The plus sign (+) replacing the “T” is more than clever typography; it’s a cruciform reminder that everything in our work orbits the radical, self-giving love revealed on the cross. Jesus love and sacrifice wasn’t transactional, it was revelational. Revealing what the world is and can be-he was a political, social, economic disruption to the machinery of empire. So are we.
This studio is a gathering ground for thinkers, skeptics, preachers, ex-evangelicals, academics, artists, agnostics and the spiritually curious—anyone asking deeper questions about justice, identity, and what it really means to follow Jesus in an isolating empire-shaped world. Through writing, videos, clothing, and curated community, we are building something honest, beautiful, and bold.
Welcome to a new way of seeing. Welcome to α+ studio.
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