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The Christian Celebrity Era Is Over. What Replaced It Might Be Worse.

The Christian Celebrity Era Is Over. What Replaced It Might Be Worse.

Tuesday, July 8, 2025
The American church has always had a thing for celebrity — but something shifted over the past five years. We used to look to megachurch pastors and high-profile believers like Chris Pratt and Justin Bieber as proof that Christianity still had cultural pull. Then the Carl Lentz scandal happened. Lentz’s 2020 resignation from Hillsong —…