6-session study

Pluribus and Daniel

Resistance, community, and the self

A six-session study pairing the narrative chapters of Daniel with the themes of Apple TV+'s Pluribus (Vince Gilligan, 2025). Pluribus is not a Christian show, but it is working a deeply biblical question: what makes a person a person, and what is the right shape of human community? Daniel asks the same question from inside a different empire. The sessions are arranged here as a sustained argument moving from small daily dissent to the gospel's vision of unity-with-difference. Each session pairs a Daniel passage with cross-references and discusses the show's themes carefully — no plot spoilers in the questions, so the study works for viewers and non-viewers alike.

  1. Different by Choice

    Daniel 1

    How identity is preserved one small refusal at a time

  2. When the Music Plays

    Daniel 3

    Three young men and the conditional that defines faithful dissent.

  3. Pray With the Window Open

    Daniel 6

    Daniel 6 and the discipline of visible faith

  4. Empires of the Statue

    Daniel 2:31-49 · Genesis 11:1-9

    Why every project that promises to fix humanity by flattening it ends in rubble

  5. The Collective That Cannot Mourn

    Daniel 5

    Belshazzar's feast, the writing on the wall and the grief that proves we are still human

  6. Out of Every Nation

    Daniel 7:13-14 · Revelation 7:9-17

    Many-Still-Many Before the Throne