One of the people that I watch and follow on Twitter is Russell Brand. I've been watching

his character arc over the last several years and while I didn't know much about him as a comedian or in his past or as an actor,

he has become more and more popular as he speaks about health care, environment, green, whether it's legit or not,

politics, etc.

And he's kind of become a surprise voice moving you might say more and more to the

right and I know he's extremely controversial especially in the last year.

But he caught my attention a couple days ago, and he released a video on Twitter on why he is

now wearing a crucifix and why he is now reading the Bible and his comments are not just

sort of generically Christian they're very Catholic so I'm going to run that

video today and do some commentary and we'll talk about it and then I'm also going to share some things

from his life from his youth and apply it towards how we can share the Catholic faith how we can share the Catholic faith,

how we can share the true gospel

with other people.

And here it is.

Here is Russell Bran, and here we go.

The reason I wear a cross is because Christianity and in particular

the figure of Christ it seems to me inevitably becoming more important as I become more familiar

with suffering, purpose, self, and not self.

Reading the Bible a lot more and as I've told you before I'm reading

Rick Warren's purpose-driven life.

When I grew up, Christianity seemed like it was either really irrelevant and old-fashioned and sort

of dusty and sort of incense or they try to modernize it and it seems just like,

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