Carl Lentz, the pastor who attracted Justin Bieber and other celebrities to Hillsong’s New York location, gives his first big interview since his 2020 firing.
on Discovery Plus. They include: allegations of discrimination against women, people of color and the LGBTQ community; disturbingly close scrutiny of young adults’ sex lives; exploitation of volunteer labor; and church leaders’ extravagant personal use of donated funds.The series also airs previously known allegations that the church downplayed and even concealed
sexual misconduct, including by Hillsong founder Brian Houston and his father, pastor Frank Houston. The younger, including making sexually suggestive remarks to a female attendee of a conference in 2019, and of covering up his father’s sexual abuse of young boys in the 1970s. Lentz says childhood sex abuse and a prescription-drug addiction sent him to rock bottomLentz says he was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder after college and was prescribed medication.
that she “ran into the room and shoved Carl and hit him, then I jumped on top of her and punched her.” Kimes stayed on as the Lentzes’ nanny for some time afterward. In an open letter published after Lentz’s firing, Kimes accused Lentz of sexually abusing her, which Lentz denies. “I am responsible for allowing an inappropriate relationship to develop in my house with someone who worked for us,” he says on-screen. “Any notion of abuse is categorically false.”After leaving Hillsong, Lentz went to rehab and “began the layer peel-back” of how he’d fallen so far short of his ideals. “I found out at that rehab center that I was a mess inside,” he says.
go “off the grid,” and he shows a film crew his desk at the gray-and-white office of an advertising firm. Lentz, his signature aviator frames and skinny jeans long gone but replaced by a leopard-print collared shirt, jokes that the job is a good fit: “I’ve been advertising the Gospel for quite a while.” (Other reporting makes clear that he
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