‘To have people with a platform declare Jesus has changed their life, is now a bolder move that it would have been previously. To put your head above the parapet in this age of social media trolling is not for the faint hearted, but sharing our faith brings life,’ say Jemimah Wright.
On Easter Monday, yesterday in fact, a friend sent me through an Instagram video of Gwen Stefani sharing her faith on the Hallow page. Honestly, at first I thought it was AI generated, as frankly, you can’t trust anything nowadays. But as I looked into it further, it seems it is indeed real.
The lead singer of No Doubt, who released the catchy Don’t Speak single in 1996, is joined by Mark Walberg, Chris Pratt, Jim Caviezel and Jonathan Roumie on the The Hallow app, a Catholic prayer and meditation platform, in sharing her faith.
Why should I be so surprised? Maybe because it feels we are living in a post Christian culture in the West, and to have people with a platform declare Jesus has changed their life, is now a bolder move that it would have been previously. To put your head above the parapet in this age of social media trolling is not for the faint hearted, but sharing our faith brings life.
In March 2025, Gwen invited her fans to join her in a 40-day prayer challenge leading up to Easter, focusing on meditating on Jesus’ journey to the cross.
In March 2025, Gwen invited her fans to join her in a 40-day prayer challenge leading up to Easter, focusing on meditating on Jesus’ journey to the cross. “Are you looking to grow closer to God this Lent? I’d love to invite you to join me in praying every day leading up to Easter,” she said.
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Then in a later video, the one I just watched, she shared her testimony:
“I didn’t go away to college, I lived at home with my family until I was twenty-six years old. I still had my routine through my twenties of going to church with my family. But those rhythms that had always served me so well eventually faded out of my life as my music career started growing. I fell away from my faith. And then came a time in my life when I felt like I was losing everything. My emotional and my mental stress from my situation quickly turned to physical pain, like a physical illness, chronic pain that prevented me from doing daily, ordinary things, and I was so scared.
“I was trying everything to find some sort of cure to what I was going through. During this time I wasn’t as close to God as I wanted to be, and I knew he was calling me back, and it was then my prayer life started again. Feeling so desperate, I got on my knees I asked God: ‘Please, please get me well, please use my gift of music again. Please let me be the person I used to be.’
“I began returning to daily prayer, trusting that God had a purpose for me, knowing that I needed to serve God. A lot of amazing changes have happened in my life since then, and my faith has carried me through it all.”
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In the same theme, The Guardian published an article on Sunday by author, Lemora Ash with the title; Could I become a Christian in a year? The twenty-nine year old was impacted by two friends from university who had become Christians. They were once comedians, and now both want to become Anglican Priests.
She writes: ‘My interviews with the two recent converts took place over the course of a year. Do you believe in the resurrection?
She writes: ‘My interviews with the two recent converts took place over the course of a year. Do you believe in the resurrection? I asked them. In heaven? Where do you stand on demons? But what I saw of the two young men’s faith, finally, was not through their answers to my generic questions about Christianity. It was reflected in their faces and enacted in their gestures as I attended religious services beside them.’
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My heart is warmed by both Gwen Stefani’s story, and the article about finding faith in The Guardian. I know Jesus has changed my life, given me hope for the future and strength for today, and I want others to know him too – so I am glad for Hallow, for Gwen and for Lemora’s friends, let’s be bold like them, and give away what we have been given - forgiveness, hope, redemption, and eternal life through Jesus.
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