This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. He is a two-time Grammy Award winning artist, of course, best-selling author.

He's got a new book called I Am Restored How I Lost My Religion but Found My Faith.

Let me welcome him to the Karen Hunter show for the first time.

Lachrai! Welcome to the Karen. What's going on? Thank you for having me. I appreciate

Thank you. Thank you. So listen, before we get into being restored, I took you to task on these airways.

I didn't know who you were.

So, and I figured, you know, I feel like we're in this period where people are going to celebrities to get their opinion on things when they don't have the band with the comment but you caught yourself in a situation with the guy from chick fillet and he was talking about white privilege and things and you sat there and didn't say anything.

If you had to do it over again, would you, what would you have said?

Given another opportunity? Well one you know

Dr. Bernice King was supposed to be there and as soon as I found out she wasn't going to be there I wouldn't have been there I would I would have just said, I'm sorry, can't be here,

because her voice was the voice that was really necessary during that time period. But more than anything,

I think I would have just, you know, I was in shock, but at the same time, it's no excuse to not consider the most disenfranchised people in the room and I think even though I tried to course correct him I still should have considered those who are most affected by his commentary instead of trying to

consider him and his constituents in the room at that moment.

So yeah, that's what I would get over again for sure.

And let's talk a little bit about that because you know the Dan Kathy, the owner of Chickfuly,

super Christian, I'm putting up air quotes right now.

Uh, jiggolo, super Christian. I'm putting up air quotes right now.

Jiggolo, super Christian, I'm putting up air quotes because to me, the love of Jesus requires that you love all people, all people, like wherever they show up in the world all people

however they look whatever their proclivities are

it's the love of those people that will turn them to God right not the

shunning of people.

That is not that is not the Jesus way.

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