“The Secrets of Hillsong,” a four-part docuseries premiering Friday on FX, makes the case that Carl Lentz, although flawed, was a convenient, high-profile scapegoat for an institution that went much deeper than a single wayward pastor.
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Lentz in 2017 during an interview in New York, around the height of his fame. “I think this moment of quiet must be disorientating for him,” director Stacey Lee said. Lentz is also critical of Hillsong’s leadership, particularly that of founder Brian Houston, a former friend and mentor, who is now in the midst of a trial in Australia, where he is accused of failing to report child sexual abuse by his father, Frank Houston, a preacher who died in 2004 and whose Pentecostal church there was a precursor to Hillsong.
Scout Productions, known for creating such programs as “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” soon came on board to develop the Vanity Fair story into a docuseries.
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