Why is 'Maverick City Music' Touring With Mormon Musician Ashley Hess?

Maverick City Music is a mess* and continues to get messier, exemplified by the fact that they’ve just spent months touring and collaborating with devout and unabashed Mormon Ashley Hess.

Hess is a former American Idol contestant best known for her song ‘Yet’, which has tens of millions of views across multiple platforms. She recently recorded this song with Maverick City Music, the famed collective of Gospel singers who have won 5 Grammy awards, and has performed it while accompanying them on their fall and early winter tour.

Hess is not a Christian; however, she is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and has been since her youth. Hess is featured on the Mormon’s Church website, where her singing is available to listen to. She has appeared singing on the Mormon Channel Studio, is featured on Mormon Wiki, and recently was interviewed by Stephen Jones on his LDS YouTube channel.

While she may be sincere in her beliefs, Mormons are not believers. In fact, Islam is closer to Christianity than Mormonism is, because at least with Islam they are monotheist, rather than Mormons who have millions of Deities.

For a brief overview of the Mormon views on Jesus and other things, they believe that Jesus was once a regular sinful man who became exalted and turned into a God after doing many good deeds. ‘God the Father’ himself was also once a man on another planet, but because he likewise was such a good Mormon, he was granted the right to become a God over this earth. They believe that they too can become capital ‘G’ Gods of their own planet one day, and in fact, hold that there are millions of Gods. For them, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all and individual separate Gods, and they all have human bodies of flesh- they are not Spirits.

Mormons categorically deny the idea of salvation by grace alone and believe Jesus and Lucifer are ‘spirit brothers.’ They believe the scriptures we have are all corrupted and that’s why they have the new revelation of Joseph Smith.

That Maverick City Music didn’t know, or didn’t care, speaks volumes about the sincerity of their beliefs and the extent in which the gospel of Christ is important to them. And for a group that tours around singing gospel and worship music, one would have hoped that would be pretty important.

* We’ve covered their many acts of malfeansce over the years, such a wehen From when ‘Maverick City Music’ Musician Posts Pro-Abortion Message, that time Popular Christian Worship Leader Issues Defiant ‘Apology” After Salacious Wedding Photo goes Viral , the incident where Maverick City Music Sing Worship on ‘The View’ with Dancing, Christ-Hating Whoopi Goldberg, the time Gospel Artist Dante Bowe Lies About Leaked ‘Inappropriate’ Selfie: ‘it wasn’t like a sexual photo’, and the most recent instance where Maverick City Music Singer Nearly Kicked Off Plane After She Wouldn’t Stop Singing to Passengers