Relevant Magazine

The Christian Celebrity Era Is Over. What Replaced It Might Be Worse.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025The 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 —…