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Breaking News: West ends sabbatical with comeback performance.
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His upcoming show, titled “Fill These Hearts: God, Sex and the Universal Longing,” is a collaboration with the young folk-rock group Mike Mangione & The Union. West's teaching will also be illustrated visually through film and sand paintings. The show was initially developed for Sydney's World Youth Day in 2008, and performed earlier this year in New York City.
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The performance at Colorado Springs' Pikes Peak Center this Saturday will be West's first public appearance since his announcement of a six-month break in April. His “personal and professional” sabbatical followed a spate of critical comments from Catholic theologians and authors, such as Dr. Alice von Hildebrand and David Schindler, who claimed that West was ignoring the weakness of human nature and presenting an overly sexualized vision of Christianity.
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The show, West told the Independent, is “for everyone,” including non-Catholics and the non-religious," and it is meant “to blow the lid off the common idea of what Christianity teaches,” although “there will inevitably be some who are offended.”
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“You'd probably be surprised as to who (the critics) are,” West told the Independent, saying that those offended by his presentations are “usually from the religious right." - CNA
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So he just repackaged it then? I'm so religious right. Oh well. After Pike's Peak - OL of Vegas!
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Link: The Tour (Thanks Mat!)
Catholic sex theologian. ;)
