Alex Jones Shares How Luke 11 Inspired His Creation of the Hallow App
When Alex Jones, President of Hallow, encountered the passage in Luke 11 during his journey to discover Jesus and Christianity, it deeply resonated with him—marking a turning point in his return to God and his understanding of prayer. Jones is the leader of a vast and growing network called Hallow, which calls for people to embrace and seek Jesus. Jones, who was a tech guru before launching Hallow, is a walking billboard for people to turn back to Jesus and fall in love with talking to him.
Crosswalk Headlines: Where does the organization come from; how did it get started?
Alex Jones: Scripture, it comes really from my own journey with the Lord and my own relationship with him.
CWH: You fell away from your relationship with Jesus and became an atheist. What was your journey back to Jesus like?
AJ: I fell away from my faith in high school and college and would've considered myself atheist or agnostic for most of that time. When I graduated, I became really fascinated with the idea of meditation, which led me to ask questions regarding prayer and meditation from friends of mine who were in the faith.
CWH: How did your curiosity in mediation play a part in your coming back to faith?
AJ: Every time I would meditate, I realized it was really the first time that I'd honestly ever sat in true silence and not distracted myself with social media or work or to-do lists or busyness or whatever. What happened was my mind kept feeling this weird pull by the grace of God to something spiritual. I thought the name Jesus, the image of the cross, and the words Holy Spirit were very strange because I would've considered myself agnostic. I started asking people, pastors, priests, brothers, and sisters who were deeper in their faith life than I was.
CWH: How did your questioning about faith lead to your wanting to know more about prayer and faith issues?
AJ: I thought I had this interesting question, which was, "Hey, is there any way there's some sort of intersection here between this meditation thing and this faith thing?" And they all laughed at me and said, "Yeah, it's called prayer." We've been doing it for 2000 years. I had one pastor friend say to me, "It's great to talk to God, but how do you listen to Him?"
CWH: How was Luke chapter eleven instrumental in your faith journey?
AJ: I randomly opened up a Bible to Luke eleven, where the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, and the word that stuck out to me from that passage was hallow in "hallowed be Thy name." It's funny, you know, Jesus responds to their question, teaching them how to pray, and He gives them the Our Father, the Lord's Prayer. In Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, hallow was the word that stuck out to me. I just never thought about that word before and its meaning, which is to make holy.
CWH: How did the word holy stand out to you?
AJ: I remember asking God, as I sat there for ten minutes, am I making your name holy? And the answer was no. I was just doing my own career following the ways of the world, trying to get ahead or whatever that meant, trying to do what I was supposed to do from the world's perspective, which is the opposite of what God wanted me to do.
CWH: What did you end up doing next, after entering back into a relationship with God?
AJ: I quit my job, did this crazy startup thing, and started Hallow. I was wrestling with something that was really stressful and really big for me, but in this place of deep peace, that for me is prayer. It's this unique combination at the core of a relationship with the Lord, one that gives you peace but also comes with great challenges. Jesus gives you a cross, but with him, it's easy to carry.
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Originally published April 11, 2025.
