Jelly Roll inspires the world: Preaches gospel right to Hollywood’s face
Hollywood celebrities love nothing more than lecturing everyday Americans on morality, politics, and how we should live — but of course, their hypocrisy is hard to ignore.
“We’ve got all the hypocrisy in the world coming from Hollywood. These are not our moral exemplars, and they really don’t have as much influence over our elections as they think they do,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.
“Thank the Lord. Otherwise, Donald Trump wouldn’t have won in 2016. He wouldn’t have won in 2024. So, we can continue to highlight their hypocrisy just as a good reminder that we shouldn’t be looking to them in any way,” she continues, noting that there are some exceptions — like Jelly Roll’s recent Grammys speech about Jesus Christ.
“There was a time in my life, y’all, that I was broken. That’s why I wrote this album. I didn’t think I had a chance, y’all. There was days that I thought the darkest things. I was a horrible human. There was a moment in my life that all I had was a Bible this big and a radio the same size in a 6-by-8-foot cell,” he said at the Grammys.
“And I believed that those two things could change my life. I believed that music had the power to change my life, and God had the power to change my life. And I want to tell y’all right now, Jesus is for everybody. Jesus is not owned by one political party. Jesus is not owned by no music label. Jesus is Jesus, and anybody can have a relationship with him. I love you, Lord,” he continued.
“Yes and amen,” Stuckey responds. “That is absolutely true. Love people giving glory to God in moments like that instead of saying stupid things about politics.”
“There’s no better news than the news that Jelly Roll just told us of the gospel,” she adds.
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Allie Beth Stuckey shreds ‘anti-ICE pastor’ arguing for open borders
Christians are being told by anti-ICE pastors like Ben Cremer that putting America first is unbiblical, that enforcing borders violates Scripture, and that letting Christian beliefs inform public policy is “Christian nationalism.”
And according to BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, none of that is true.
“We hear a lot from people like Ben Cremer that putting your country first is wrong, or allowing your Christian conservative views to inform how you vote, that that’s wrong,” Stuckey explains.
And eight months ago, Cremer posted, “Myth #1: Immigrants are a drain on our country.”
“What I’m most interested in is not that he’s saying that that’s a myth, but his response to that,” she comments, before reading Cremer’s response.
“The Bible never defines a person’s worth by their economic output. In fact, it warns us not to favor the rich over the poor (James 2:1-7). God’s kingdom is built not on cost-benefit analysis but on belovedness. The call to welcome the stranger (Leviticus 19:34, Deuteronomy 10:19) is rooted in who God is — not in what the stranger can offer us,” Cremer wrote.
“He is conflating the kingdom of God with America. ... We’re not talking about God’s kingdom. We’re talking about the United States. So, actually, in him saying that Christian nationalists are trying to enforce some theocracy by allowing the law to be informed by what we believe, he is actually the one that is conflating our spiritual obligation to the poor in the spiritual kingdom of heaven with America here today,” Stuckey responds.
Stuckey also points out that the government was instituted by God, pointing to Romans 13:2-4, which explains that “rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad,” and that the authority figure is “God’s servant for your good.”
“It was his idea. Law and law enforcement were God’s idea. Now, this right here is why it is so important to elect politicians that define good and evil how God defines them,” Stuckey says.
Cremer has also written in a post on his Instagram that “Christian Nationalism looks like hearing God say ‘I will pour out my spirit on all people’ in Acts 2 where all nations, languages, and tribes were present then protesting by saying ‘America first!’”
“There’s an irony in this accusation. Progressives, as I noted earlier, consistently conflate America and the church, which is the very thing they accuse Christian nationalists of doing,” Stuckey says.
“The truth is, hot take, we do not see the importance of ethnic diversity within nations or local churches anywhere in Scripture,” she continues. “Nowhere.”
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Hillary’s attack backfires: Allie Beth Stuckey tells Glenn Beck that Clinton’s hit piece is a ‘badge of honor'
Allie Beth Stuckey, the host of BlazeTV’s “Relatable” podcast, joined “The Glenn Beck Program” on Tuesday morning to discuss the hit piece Hillary Clinton wrote about Stuckey last week.
Clinton mentioned Stuckey several times in a Thursday op-ed in the Atlantic, arguing that “Christian influencers” like Stuckey have promoted a distorted view of Christianity that has waged a “war on empathy.” Clinton positioned herself as an authority on Jesus’ teachings, despite admitting that she has “never been one to wear my faith on my sleeve.”
'Sometimes people need to see that there’s another side of the story that demands your heart too.'
The former secretary of state’s hit piece mentioned Stuckey’s book, “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion,” and mocked the concept that empathy could ever be “toxic,” calling Stuckey’s position “appalling.”
Stuckey told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Tuesday’s podcast that Clinton’s article was a “badge of honor” that had effectively backfired, noting that it had boosted sales for the 2024 book.
Beck called Clinton’s hit piece on Stuckey “a good endorsement.”
Stuckey stated that while Clinton’s op-ed failed to detail how Stuckey had defined toxic empathy in her book, she believes that “the left actually understands the concept.”
“They talk about things like toxic masculinity, and what they’ll say is that not all masculinity is toxic, but this form of masculinity is toxic. And yet when I talk about toxic empathy, they pretend that I say that all compassion is toxic and bad, and that’s not what I’m saying at all,” Stuckey told Beck.
Stuckey explained that empathy becomes toxic when it leads a person to affirm sin, validate lies, or support destructive policies.
“Your empathy becomes toxic when you feel so deeply for one particular person, a purported victim, that you are blinded to both reality and morality. You are so focused on this person that you forget that there are other people on the other side of the moral equation,” Stuckey stated.
She contended that toxic empathy is to blame for the support of destructive policies.
“If you concentrate on feelings, then reason shuts down,” Beck said. “You have all of these people that, I think, they’re actually thinking they’re doing the right thing, but they’ve shut down the thinking process so deeply that they’re just trapped.”
“How do you reverse this?” Beck asked Stuckey.
“We need to tell the story on the other side of every issue,” Stuckey responded. “Sometimes people need to see that there’s another side of the story that demands your heart too.”
Stuckey gave the example of the legacy media’s narrative about a woman who wishes to have an abortion but feels forced to carry her pregnancy to term because of pro-life legislation.
“I tell the story from the baby’s perspective. This is what would have happened to this baby had there not been this pro-life law in Texas. She would have been poisoned; she would have been dismembered; she would have been tossed aside like toxic waste,” Stuckey said.
“When you allow people to zoom out and show them there are other people on the other side of this political issue that you’re talking about, sometimes that expands their understanding to the point that they can be persuaded by facts,” she added.
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Schweizer: Islamist activists want power, not assimilation
Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer did a deep dive into how Islam is being used as a vehicle to change American culture and shift power into the hands of one political party in his new book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”
And while it is not just Islam being pushed on Americans, the religion is by far one of the most troubling — and Schweizer has the receipts.
“I’m going to read you two quotes, just because I think it’s better than me just saying it, and it gives an indication of where these activists are coming from,” Schweizer tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”
The first quote Schweizer reads is from the head of Florida’s Council on American-Islamic Relations.
“How do we even justify living here, in the United States? I mean, why are we living here? Have we asked ourselves this question? Why are we living in the United States? The only answer I believe is excusable and justifiable is if we are living here to shift this country’s political direction and spiritual direction together,” he reads.
The second quote comes from a board member of CAIR and reads, “Ultimately, we can never be full citizens of this country because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions of this country. We can be citizens in the sense that we try to influence American policy.”
“So it begins with this very aggressive effort within the Islamic community to say, ‘No, don’t assimilate, and if you do assimilate, we are going to ostracize you. We are going to attack you and criticize you,’ because the point is they do not want people that immigrate here of the Muslim faith to embrace the American dream,” Schweizer tells Stuckey.
“So you have this very organized, highly funded effort by these activists, by these groups, by these imams, to fight against the United States, not embrace it,” he says, pointing out that these activists hope “that American apathy will serve their political agenda.”
Schweizer notes that the recent election of Zohran Mamdani in New York City is an excellent example of this.
“Mamdani’s election in New York was watched very closely in Tehran, and it was also watched very closely by groups like Hezbollah, the terrorist group in Lebanon,” he tells Stuckey, “because they see these victories in the United States as an opportunity to expand their sphere of influence within our own borders.”
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Everyone needs Jesus — even furries and the KKK
According to the young Bryce Crawford, God transformed his life and gave him the boldness to share Jesus with people most Christians avoid.
“The head of the KKK, furries, politicians, homeless people. What do all of these groups have in common? They need Jesus. They need to hear the gospel,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says on “Relatable.”
“Bryce Crawford knows that. That’s why he goes to everyone, everywhere, and preaches the good news of Jesus Christ,” she says.
And in a recent conversation with Crawford at AmFest, he explained just how he reaches those who seem to want to be reached the least.
“How do you explain the gospel to someone who has no Christian contact? They don’t know anything about what you’re talking about,” she asked Crawford.
“I kind of explain it like a murderer, like a criminal. You know, a murderer commits a crime, and if the police officer arrested them and then took them to doughnuts and coffee, you’d be like, ‘That’s a little weird. No, the murderer deserves jail!’” Crawford explained.
“And in the same way a murderer deserves jail and deserves to be punished is the same way you and I deserve to be punished, because you don’t have to teach a 4-year-old to be selfish and not share and pitch fits and hit the mom or hit the dad when they’re upset,” he said.
“It doesn’t matter how good of a parent you are. It’s in their nature. But it’s a gift from God that God substitutes his wrath on us with his grace. And I think the ultimate thing for me is explaining forgiveness. You know, forgiveness is canceling the debt someone owes you. And God has canceled the debt that we owe Him with His life,” he added.
While Crawford has had a lot of great conversations with those whom he disagrees with, he has had a few that have momentarily stumped him.
“I talked to the Hebrew Israelites a lot,” he told Stuckey, explaining that this specific group believes that “if you’re not black, you’re going to hell, basically.”
“It’s hard to talk with people that are prideful and that take Scripture out of context. You know what I mean? And so, I just say, ‘Okay, thank you,’ or, ‘Oh, I don’t know, but this is what I do know,’” he explained.
“The Holy Spirit can take over and give you words, but we can’t let false doctrine sway us aside. Those guys can be a little iffy,” he added.
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Deja vu: Christians are falling for the same trap that fooled them in 2020
As Minnesota erupts in protests with cries of racism and tyranny over the recent ICE shootings, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says she’s “having deja vu to 2020.”
“Like, are we really doing this again?” Stuckey asks.
“So many women in my DMs have yet again fallen for the very same psychological and political traps that were laid for us in 2020 and, in some ways, were laid for us all the way back in the Garden of Eden,” she explains.
In 2020, Stuckey recalls people suddenly becoming “very feverish about things like masks.”
“We were getting a lot of propaganda. It was almost like Trump’s enemies realized that they can harness this as a tool to try to help him lose the election. And then George Floyd happens, the riots happen, the protests,” she says.
“And, of course, you remember that right away, the reaction by most people, especially in the evangelical world, was to condemn racism, to condemn police brutality, to condemn white supremacy, to almost apologize to their black friends, to post the black square, maybe put their Christian spin on it,” she continues.
Of course, those same people ignored the deaths of young people like Tony Timpa and Justine Damond, who were also unarmed, in non-threatening positions, and killed by police officers.
“But they didn’t have the right skin color. And so they didn’t point to the systemic white supremacy, the institutional racism that has plagued our country since its very beginning,” Stuckey says.
“That’s just not true. That’s not politically true. I mean, black Americans have a large segment of the vote. They almost always vote Democrat. Barack Obama won his election two years in a row. It’s not true that these voices are politically unheard, but that was used by Christians to justify violence and to check themselves and to check their privilege and to commit to being an anti-racist,” she continues.
“And I had read too much Thomas Sowell and too much Walter Williams at that point in my life to buy into that. But I’m telling you, for real, it was really hard. It would have been so much easier at the time to shut up about that and to just not say anything, to just post the black square,” she says.
And while both of the recent ICE shootings have been of white people, they were white people defending the honor of minorities and white people playing into the propaganda that minorities need saving, just like in 2020.
“They’re buying into lies, and they’re very tied to it,” Stuckey says.
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‘They’re scared’ — Allie Beth Stuckey fires back at Hillary Clinton’s hit piece on the biblical movement she helped ignite
Yesterday, the Atlantic ran an op-ed by Hillary Clinton titled “MAGA’s War on Empathy,” in which the former Secretary of State accused the MAGA movement of twisting bedrock Christian values and embracing a worldview where “compassion is weak and cruelty is strong,” connecting specifically “hard-right Christian influencers” to the violence we’ve seen in Minneapolis.
One of the people in Clinton’s crosshairs is Blaze Media’s own Allie Beth Stuckey, host of the Christian podcast “Relatable.”
Among many grievances, the twice-defeated Democrat took issue with Stuckey’s critical analysis of the sermon delivered on January 21 last year by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde during a post-inauguration interfaith Service of Prayer for the Nation. Budde’s preaching was interpreted by many conservatives, including Stuckey, as a politicization of faith to push progressive views on immigration and LGBTQ+ issues.
“The right-wing Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey called the sermon ‘toxic empathy that is in complete opposition to God’s Word and in support of the most satanic, destructive ideas ever conjured up.’ Toxic empathy! What an oxymoron. I don’t know if the phrase reflects moral blindness or moral bankruptcy, but either way it’s appalling,” Clinton wrote, explicitly describing herself as a Christian.
Now Stuckey fires back at the self-proclaimed devout Mrs. Clinton. In this special “Relatable” episode, she dismisses the hit piece as proof progressives are losing their grip, doubles down on biblical truth over “toxic empathy,” and celebrates the attack as a backhanded compliment.
“First, I just want to make an announcement. I want to announce that I love my life. I love living. I’m happy to be here. That is an important declaration to make anytime you get in the crosshairs of the Clintons, which, to my astonishment, I am,” Stuckey quips, alluding to widely circulated conspiracy narratives tying the Clintons to mysterious deaths.
Though character assassinations like Clinton’s are never ideal, Stuckey celebrates them as proof her message is hitting its mark.
“This article might mention me by name, but it is not actually about me,” she says, “because the truth is, if it weren't for all of you, Hillary Clinton would not care about me. It is because of your presence, because of your courage, because of your resolve, your influence over this and future generations that Clinton is writing this article.”
And she’s not the first to shoot an arrow at Stuckey. Since her book “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion” hit the New York Times bestseller list in October 2024, left-wing outlets have been running hit piece after hit piece accusing Stuckey of politically weaponizing the Christian faith.
“The deeper reason [for these attacks] is so incredibly clear to me,” she says, “and that is that we are over the target.”
“We have gotten to the heart of progressive manipulation. We looked at their lies straight in the face that abortion is health care, that trans women are women, that no human being is illegal, and we said, ‘No, I see what you're doing,’” she continues.
“And now they’re afraid,” she declares.
From 2020 until now, this movement that refuses to allow “emotion to paralyze ... critical thinking” has continued to grow, and progressives, realizing that they’re rapidly losing their “monopoly on female compassion,” are in full panic mode, she argues.
“They don't trot out former Secretary of State, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, unless they are really worried.”
To Clinton — who seemed to reduce Christianity to mere neighborly love — Stuckey sets the record straight on the faith’s highest virtue: “[Love] is inextricably intertwined with the truth.”
“God is love — 1 John 4:8. He gets to define it. And He tells us what it is in 1 Corinthians 13, and in verse 6, we read that love ‘never rejoices in wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth,’” she quotes. “So you cannot have in Christianity love without truth.”
But toxic empathy throws genuine love to the wolves.
“You are so deeply in one person’s feelings that you no longer can think objectively. You no longer consider the person on the other side of the equation, and then you make decisions based on how much you feel for one person rather than on what is true and moral and just,” Stuckey illustrates, giving the example of pro-choicers who, in the name of empathy for the mother, neglect to consider “the existence, the rights, and the pain of the baby inside the womb.”
Love and truth: “This is the dichotomy that Jesus represented. Not unconditional empathy toward every purported victim group,” she clarifies.
Ultimately, Stuckey is grateful for Clinton’s polemic.
“She’s put more eyes on [“Toxic Empathy”],” she says.
But for her, it’s never been about selling books.
“It is about getting Christian women to see what is logically and factually and, most importantly, biblically true about some of the biggest issues of our day and to be able to stand confidently in that,” she says.
She concludes by encouraging Christians to take heart when the Enemy assaults them, reading from Luke 6:22: “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and when they revile you and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man!”
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