Gwen Stefani Has No Doubt About the Power of Prayer

No Doubt front lady, Gwen Stefani has joined the current outspoken group of Catholic or Christian celebrities that are becoming more vocal about their conservative views and re-awakened faith.

With ska-punk legend, Gwen Stefani on board, it's official...conservative Catholicism is now 'the new punk' in as much as being ‘punk’ is about being radically counterculture and defiant against the mainstream media messaging.

With a commitment to anti-establishment principles and a desire to not be considered normal, Gwen Stefani and others have realized that a traditional lifestyle is now edgy and in your face before the sinking ship of political correctness and its absurd, tired wokeness.

For example, in an age when it seems like everyone has tattoos, not having a tattoo is now unusual if not radical. Being untattooed is a now a sign of people with independence, verve and critical thinking; people capable of swimming against the cultural currents and immune to peer pressure. 

In the aftermath of Covid which featured government overreach and draconian rules imposed top-down from the secular authorities and Biden era politics which featured the F.B.I. conducting early morning raids of pro-life families’ homes and investigating traditional Catholics, there hasn’t just been a cultural shift, there has been an absolute cultural flip. It's now considered 'dangerous extremism' to be traditional and religious. How cool is that? 

Those who were surprised by the recent election outcome may still be unaware of Generation Z's swing to conservatism. Podcaster personalities like Brett Cooper and the Nelk Boys who helped people see the goodness of taditional, family friendly policies, are on the rise.

Nineties era liberal-minded No Doubt fans are expressing their shock and disappointment with Gwen’s decision to take her very personal Catholic Faith outward against the cultural strangle-hold of liberal ideology. They are dumbfounded that their cultural icon, their hollaback girl, has grown up. 

The ever-edgy ska punk idol is now speaking of Jesus as 'our Lord' and advocating that we all rely on the power of prayer through the ‘Hallow App’ this Advent. 

The 55 year old mother of three is now pitching Catholic Hallow's Advent Pray25 Prayer Challenge.

According to Stefani, "Christmas season has always been my favorite time of the year. It's the season that we get to celebrate the birth of our Lord. This year, I'm excited to share that I've partnered with this amazing prayer, meditation and music app called Hallow on their 25-day prayer challenge leading up to Christmas called Advent Pray 25. Join me and millions of other Christians around the world as we celebrate together the truth that God so loved the world, that he gave us his only Son."

What most people don't know is that Gwen Stafani has always been Catholic. She was raised with multiple siblings in Orange County, a conservative enclave of Southern California. Those who traveled with her band recall that she would never miss Sunday Mass even while on the road.Like most Gen X Catholics, she just was not someone who was trained to evangelize in an assertive way. Despite being part of the 'lost generation' when it comes to being catechized and learning how to spread and defend the Faith, she never backed down on her principles rooted in her childhood Catholic Faith. 

When a journalist, at the height of her No Doubt fame, rudely asked her about her sex life, assuming she was ok with that line of questioning, she became indignant. She intuitively made an effort to protect her young female fans by advocating chastity in a way that was not overtly theological or too preachy. 

Creepy Journalist: “Was he your first?”

Gwen Stafani: “First what?”

Creepy Journalist: “First sexual experience”

Gwen Stefani: “I would never tell you that! Are you crazy? I would never tell anyone that. I have pretty strong feelings about that. If any girls were to ask me what my advice would be, completely wait as long as possible, wait till you're married. I think it's really a sacred thing.” 

Without being able to fully articulate it with theological precision the punk rock/ska singer revealed a deep Catholic world-view, "This is the thing, I always feel like this whole thing that we're doing here, this life thing, is a test and basically, you get given all of these crazy challenges to trick you to think that maybe it's not a test and maybe nothing good is going to be around the corner." 

When asked about her divorce and how she was able to manage that difficult time, Gwen Stefani said, "For me, I was turning to my faith right away. That was a seed that my mom planted in me when I was a little girl."

What’s the take away here? The Catholic Faith once planted into a child in seed form has a way of emerging when times are most dire and when the culture is in most need of it. You might be able to take the cultural icon out of her public expression of Faith but you can’t take the Catholic Faith out of the cultural icon. It was always there but sometimes people get lost. As Gwen stated, “It's a journey. It's almost like you get lost, it's like you get lost on your journey. We all do and we all will and I will again at some point I'm sure." 

Gwen Stefani is now on our team. We are now the cool kids. It’s like my wardrobe. At some point if you wear those clothes long enough they will come back into fashion and just before they do you are accidentally cutting edge. 

Hopefully, she is not just following a trend for the sake of being edgy and relevant. Based on her life experience as a wife and mom and mostly based on her own words and how she always had that seed of faith, it seems this will be the new openly Catholic Gwen Stefani for life whether it happens to be acceptable or not.    

I'm sure her disillusioned liberal fans would advise her, that when it comes to sharing her Catholic Faith, 'Don't Speak'. What they fail to realize is that this isn't 1999.

The newly outward Catholic Gwen will probably pray for them and as a good punk star refuse to care what they think about it...come to think of it, I have no doubt.