Russell Brand, the controversial English comedian and actor, is opening up more about his spiritual journey of discovery and new realizations about his faith and relationship with God.
In a short 90-second video posted to the social media platform X on Sunday, Brand shared why he wears a cross on a necklace.
“The reason I wear a cross is because Christianity and in particular, the figure of Christ are it seems to me inevitably becoming more important as I become more familiar with suffering, purpose, self, and not self,” he said.
Brand, 48, told his followers he was reading the Bible “a lot more” and is also reading Rick Warren’s book The Purpose Driven Life.
“When I grew up, Christianity seemed like it was either really irrelevant and old-fashioned and sort of dusty and sort of incense and sort of ‘Anno Domini’,” he chanted. “Or they tried to modernize it,” the comedian continued as he pretended to hold up a guitar, switching his voice to another accent. “And it seems just like, ‘Right. Ok, we’re gonna talk about Jesus.'”
“And like both of those routes seemed like ooh I don’t know if there’s anything for me,” Brand said. “And I suppose
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