Carl and Laura Lentz sit for their first interviews since the scandal sent them into functional exile—but their secrets are the least of Hillsong’s issues.
traces the church’s beginnings, its rise and expansion, its troubling culture of alleged abuse and cover-ups, and Lentz’s rapid rise and fall. French and Adler’s February 2021 report is a great place to start for background, and the reporters are on camera to help set the scene, along with former Hillsong congregants, experts on spirituality in culture, Australian senators—and the once-ubiquitous Lentz himself.—sitting for their first interviews since the scandal sent them into functional exile.
It’s also to acknowledge, and even invite, the schadenfreude the Carl Lentz/Hillsong scandal—and all the celebrity-church scandals like it, going back at least as far as the disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson almost 100 years ago—evokes in the culture at large. Carl baptized Bieber in NBA playerwant people to pay attention to him. At one point in his interviews with director Lee, Carl adapts the serenity prayer to ask for the strength to get through the documentary.
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