Now, before you go all “hit the delete button, Christa’s lost her last marble” on me, LISTEN to the words in this video. Yes, the images are disturbing; they’re supposed to be. Maybe the delivery isn’t what’s in your comfort zone, maybe KanYe’s beat makes you twitch, and maybe imagining inner-city Jesus is a tough one.

Listen anyway.

Trust me on this one.

I crossed KanYe off my Christmas card list [insert laughter here] after he went all bonkers on live television during an NBC concert fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina victims.  I was watching from my daughter’s home in Houston, where we’d driven five days after staying in our house during the hurricane [home fine; humans stupid]. Had KanYe been paddling a canoe rescuing people at the time, I might not have been as apoplectic.

Anyway. .  that was then, this is now. . .

KanYe West - Jesus Walks 1:st Version

Hats off to Cheryl Klein at Brooklyn Arden (Cheryl’s personal blog; she’s Senior Editor at Arthur A. Levine books) for posting this video.