Jonathan Roumie
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264 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Jonathan Roumie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And a lot of them know that. And a lot of fans know how I feel about Jesus and God and faith and all of those things. And so I think all of that combined, I think it's the reason for my career.
It can be draining. If I'm meeting you at one of these events and something has moved you to want to, you know, come and have this individual moment that oftentimes happens at some of these things where they'll have like VIP groups that there are certain people that get to have like some one-on-one time, but there's 700 of them. That takes time and it takes energy and
A lot of the times it's emotionally charged and, you know, better or worse, that catches up with you after 700 encounters.
I was at a... I was at a conference in a stadium of about 40,000 people. And I came off the stage and shortly thereafter, I got to the little green room where they had us hanging out. And security comes into the room and says, hey, there's a lady outside who's got a child in a wheelchair. Is it okay? She wants to know if she can say hello. And, uh,
I came outside and I met the lady and her son and she was already overwhelmed. And she then went on to tell me, she said, you know, our favorite episode is the episode where Tamar, one of the characters, lets her friend down on a stretcher in through the roof of Zebedee's house and Jesus heals him and he can walk again.
And she says, so I just thought, wouldn't it be great if the same thing happened to my son? And I, and I said, yeah, that would be amazing, but I got to be honest with you, as far as I know, I don't have that gift. But I would love to pray with you if that's okay. So I just stood with them and I prayed with them for a minute. And they were so gracious and thanked me.
And I walked away and then I just burst into tears. Because I thought to myself, man, on some level, I must have let them down. But they know, they know what I do. They know I'm not a healer. I'm not a preacher. So, Once I got through that line of thought, I recognized that I said, okay, I can't be what she maybe wanted me to be. I can only be who I've been made to be.
That's a great question. I mean, I think first and foremost, the category error thing is kind of funny because I think all of us are not the sum total of what we do. You know, I think you, by what you do as an interviewer and the questions that you ask people and the things that you bring out of people shed light on humanity in ways that other people wouldn't know how to do.
And so in many ways, you have a gift for humanity that, that you might not even be considering in that light. You know what I mean?
No, but it's absolutely true because we're not just, I don't think we're just meant to be here to just eke out a living and get a job and maybe have a family, make some money and then die. Like we have a conversation and some sort of fruit comes comes out of that for somebody else hearing this interview. And all of a sudden, the trajectory that they were on all of a sudden changes.
They learn something or they had misconceptions about Christians or Catholics or, you know, non-Christians that they didn't before. And now they have a better dialogue. It's like, that's part of, I think, what we're all here to do. I don't give my political opinions out publicly.
Well, here's what I'll say about that.
Yeah, it's a pro-life rally. It's, for me, and I was on the fence about speaking there because I recognize that for so many people, it is only political. For me, it is only spiritual.
So if I come to a conference like the March for Life and they want me to share thoughts, well, I'm thinking like, well, what do I believe as a Catholic? I believe in the sanctity of life from the moment of conception. That's what we believe as Catholics and Christians. And so for me,
It's a spiritual thing that has been usurped and turned into a political weapon that divides people in such a way where they no longer see the spirituality of the issue. It becomes completely about right or left, conservative or liberal. I don't understand it. So for me, that That wasn't politics, that was spirituality.
You can't cherry pick the aspects of your faith you like and dispense with the things you don't like. You said it yourself, I came not to bring peace, but to bring a sword. You know, fathers will divide themselves against their sons, mothers and daughters. Because of things like this, these kinds of issues that I think for Jesus, it's like, if you're going to follow me, it's not going to be easy.
It's going to be really hard and people will hate you. Get used to it.
I mean, I do do that. In fact, I was just in Tanzania and Rwanda visiting these children that I support and their families, which I had been doing even before The Chosen. A year before The Chosen, I found this charity called Unbound. And I saw the work that they were doing and they were amazing. They were changing not just the children's lives through sponsorship, but entire families.
So I'm doing as much as I can. And I weigh every opportunity that comes to me to speak on these things very carefully. And I also... I also know that there's only so much that I can give of myself. Do you know what I mean? It's a lot. It's a lot for me physically and emotionally. It can get really, really taxing at times.
And so I'm trying to do things like just take better care of myself and try to go on more vacations. But it's hard to find time these days. But, you know, sleep when you're in the ground, right?
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