The Pressure of Public Conversion
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike comments on Kanye West’s conversion. He celebrates Kanye’s conversion, but hesitates to lift him up as a Christian leader. He recommends that we let Kanye’s roots in the faith grow without the responsibility of having people watch his every step to see if he will fall; because we all fall in the walk of faith. Support Kanye by praying for him because everyone who is striving to do the will of God needs our prayers.
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| 0:00.0 | KW, we don't call him KW, come ye. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, I'm Renan, Father Mike Schmitz, and this is essential presents. People have asked me recently |
| 0:09.8 | about, what do you think about Kanye West? What do you think about his conversion? |
| 0:13.8 | What do you think about his new album, Jesus Is King? We think it's awesome. And then |
| 0:19.2 | you know, kind of like the internet explodes with like, this is so great. We're getting all behind |
| 0:23.2 | Kanye West, and then hey, Father Mike, comment on this. I'm like, okay, if people say, Father Mike, |
| 0:28.4 | do you think his conversion is legit? Do you have a problem with that? Like, absolutely not. |
| 0:31.2 | I don't have a problem with, um, I kind of subscribe to the belief that I'm going to take someone |
| 0:37.5 | at their word, unless there's a reason to not trust them, right? So, uh, to I think his conversion |
| 0:43.0 | is legit, well, to the degree that A, it matters to me, and B, that I have any insight into this, |
| 0:48.4 | whatsoever. Like, I'm going to take him at his word, um, because next to, he seems to be really honest |
| 0:53.7 | right now about, um, not only his conversion, not only about his, his, what he sees as his call |
| 0:59.5 | to proclaim the word, we actually coming back to him in just a second, but he seems to be really |
| 1:02.6 | honest about his personal struggles, about some wounds. He talked about how, um, his whole |
| 1:07.4 | worldview, when it comes to how he perceived women, um, was drastically and dramatically and, um, |
| 1:15.2 | fatally, uh, shaped by, uh, seeing Playboy when he was like five years old. When he's talked about |
| 1:19.9 | how that has really messed him up for lack of a better phrase. Um, so he's been honest about that. He's |
| 1:24.7 | also, they thought this was really cool. He was also honest about the fact that in the past, |
| 1:29.3 | he had had, uh, songs about Jesus, but they were right next to songs that were glorifying a lifestyle |
| 1:35.6 | that would not be commensurate with Christianity, let's say, like that. And, and he is, he said, he's |
| 1:39.7 | said, that was, that was wrong of me. And I think that's incredible, um, for someone to, to be that |
| 1:44.6 | honest about, like, yeah, I was there, but I wasn't all the way there. Or I was saying these things |
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