This isn’t a new thing, I know a clerical colleague who rewrote ‘Is this the road to Amarillo?’ for Sunday use.There was also another occasion where someone added words to the Match of the Day theme tune so that it begins, ‘Why don’t you put your trust in Jesus?’.For me, where Kayne’s Sunday Service ceases to be a church is in its exclusiveness. Perfection and priestliness have never gone together.Churches organise home visiting teams for the housebound and are one of the biggest providers of social care after the government.Apart from a few videos on social media and an appearance at Coachella, Kanye’s new venture into the spiritual is secretive – attendees to the event must sign a non-disclosure agreement.There’s worship music that’s for sure, although many of the songs are re-purposed from well-known pop songs. Churches where the band is polished and the music perfect, the lyrics sounding more like a love song than a hymn.
But there are some similarities. And I’m not the only one.The Windrush generation can attest to a lack of welcome they received when they first tried attend their local parish churches, as can the LGBQT community. We can’t know if there’s a theme or a Bible reading, but for me it must be more than a string of musical hits otherwise it’s not really a service, it’s a concert.I don’t want to be and I’ve tried not to be. A brief timeline of the Trump whistleblower sagaFacebook beats 2nd quarter revenue expectations even as ad industry strugglesMission accomplished. It's a tough question to answer. My daughter calls these ‘Jesus is my boyfriend’ churches.It’s also what lots of churches I know would love, being as they are usually filled with an older demographic.I wish Kanye all the best with his spiritual journey and with this venture, I’ll even pray for him, hoping that he might pray for me too. Kim Kardashian West explained that Kanye's Sunday Service is "more of a musical experience" than a religious worship session — but it is Christian. One moment Kanye is debuting his newest twisted rhymes at the Pornhub awards, and the next moment he’s leading worship services around the country and talking about Jesus. The triangular-shaped stage featured Mount Yeezus, and at one point Kanye was surrounded by 12 naked-looking women, his disciples, laying in a circle. Kayne also featured the Catholic Virgin Mary, a Catholic crucifix and incense; showing his worship of the Queen of Heaven of Babylon. But to be a church it must at least try and welcome all comers.Churches run homeless shelters, soup kitchens and food banks. In this, too, he isn’t that different to clergy I’ve known and — although I hesitate to admit it — even myself at times.However, I have been to churches like that, too. The music might be spiritual, the message reflective of gospel values, they might even share communion in the form of the pre-service low fat low carb brunch, but the minute it limits who can be there, that’s when it can’t possibly be a church.While the exact details of Sunday Service are sketchy, Kim has gone on record saying there’s no sermon. Yeezus and Jesus: Kanye’s Sunday Service is no church. Well played, Yeezianity.This is the kind of story that no click-dependent news and entertainment site can resist — it's catnip, an invitation to virality.It's also mostly nonsense. I’m not sure if what Kanye is doing could be called a church. This week the media was quick to pronounce the birth of a new religion, Yeezianity, with an especially questionable provenance: Kanye West and his critically acclaimed 2013 album, Yeezus. I’m not sure if what Kanye is doing could be called a church. Kanye West Drops ‘Wash Us in the Blood,’ With Satanist Travis Scott, A Dark And Demonically-Inspired Video That’s More Yeezus Than Jesus.