Don’t Understand This Sean Feucht Controversy? Stop Talking & Listen.
Right now, when it comes to racial issues, white people, y’all need to learn this… desperately.
So… Portland, Oregon is my hometown, for better or worse.
More specifically, it’s a place that, for a few weeks anyway, was the national epicenter of protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and decrying the Trump administration. I was so enthralled and concerned about this confluence that I wrote a song about it.
Sean Feucht, however, is not from Portland.
He’s a worship artist from Bethel Church, a nondenominational charismatic pentecostal megachurch in Redding, California. Bethel has become noteworthy in part because of its popular worship ministry Bethel Music and its worship band / record label Jesus Culture. Like other white evangelicals, Sean Feucht and many others at Bethel Church have been unabashed supporters of our current president. As a matter of fact, Sean Feucht was so invested in combining his love for Jesus with Republican politics that he ran for Congress, and used his platform as a worship artist to turn his outdoor worship events into campaign rallies.
Since his bid for Congress failed, Feucht has since made it a habit of taking his…
