Officials at Asbury University, where a student-led revival continues to grip the nation, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson not to send camera crews to the Wimore, Kentucky campus.
The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host responded in an unexpected way.
Carlson explained that after he interviewed the student body president Alison Perfater earlier this week (which you can watch below) about the Christian service, they wanted to know more about it.
BELOW IS A PORTION OF TUCKER’S MONOLOGUE:
After the show, we found ourselves still thinking about it,” Carlson explained. “We didn’t fully understand what was happening at Asbury, and we don’t really understand it now. We’re not really sure anyone does understand it. But whatever is going on seemed wonderful. It seemed like the sort of thing we badly need more of.
So we started making plans to go to Kentucky…to see the service for ourselves, and then this morning a remarkable thing happened.
“We got a call from Asbury University asking us not to come.
“It’s not personal, they said. They like our show, but the ongoing service at Asbury is purely spiritual. It’s got nothing to do with politics or business. No one there is making money from it or planning a run for office. It’s mostly just young people worshipping God. Young people finding meaning and answers in a country that increasingly doesn’t offer much of either. It’s not really a place for TV cameras.
And we understood that. In fact, we deeply respected it.
When you work in television you run into a lot of people that want publicity. You almost never meet anyone that doesn’t want publicity. And when you do meet people who don’t want publicity, they’re either doing something wrong or, in the rarest of all cases, they’re doing something right – something so right and so beautiful and so true that media coverage can’t enhance it. It can only detract from it. We think that’s what’s happening at Asbury University.
God bless them for turning us down.
WATCH TUCKER CARLSON’S MONOLOGUE BELOW:
I get chills watching that clip.
As a Fox News alum, I already had so much respect for Tucker, but after watching this clip, I have an even deeper respect for him.
And as a Christian who has been to prayer services where God is doing something special, I have so much respect for Asbury University leadership for shepherding their flock and allowing it to be a holy space for their students.
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