Movie star, comedian, and cultural commentator Russell Brand, who publicly came out as a born-again Christian* last year opened up his speech at American Fest 2025 with a prayer, declaring:
Heavenly Father, would you guide my mouth? Would you guard my lips? Oh Lord, I bend my knee and my tongue will serve you, Heavenly Father, and no other.
Thank you, Lord, for your Son Jesus Christ, who died that we may know eternal life, but may we know eternity here in this moment, Lord. There is no statute of limitations on ‘love thy neighbor.’ The whole world is our neighbor. We were intended to be one family, Heavenly Father.
You gave your life, you gave your blood, and may the covenant of your blood cover us all.
I pray, Father for the eternal soul of Charlie Kirk. I thank you for his sacrifice and I thank you Lord that we have this opportunity to be here in unity. The opportunity for true unity. The opportunity for community. The opportunity to be different Lord.
He continues:
I thank you Heavenly Father for Erica Kirk’s boldness and her bravery and for her example of forgiveness. And surely if she can forgive the people of the man responsible Lord for the murder of her husband, surely this principle of forgiveness is something that we can all extend.
Lord, may we know your grace, may we live in your grace, and particularly when it’s expensive to us, when it costs us something, may we enter into your kingdom, a kingdom of love. May we put aside petty squabbles and disputes, and may we move into a new era of grace in your glory. I pray for the kingdoms to merge. I pray for your return.I pray that we participate in making straight the paths. In the holy name of Jesus Christ I pray, amen.
We last wrote about Brand after he sat down with OnlyFans porn star Lily Phillips for an interview, questioning her joy and satisfaction and encouraging her to leave this line of work.
Editor’s Note. We don’t know if Brand is a believer. He certainly has some strange beliefs, at times seemingly mixing new age woo-woo stuff with Christianity, but we are hopeful that he is, giving him the benefit of a doubt.
As we’ve said many times before, the sanctification process is very messy, especially for new believers, where frequently it’s two steps foward and one step back. This is why it’s so important for new Christians to be surrounded by a faithful and mature church family, where they can can receive discipling, accountability, correction and exhortation, and help minimize the messiness as they grow in the Lord.
Whether the seed gets eaten by birds, scorched in the sun, choked by thistles, or embeded deep in good soil, time will tell, and we should be praying in the meantime.
