Russell Brand shares insights one month into being a Christian: ‘Sense of peace’ [Video]

Actor Russell Brand took to social media on Monday to detail his Christian experience one month after he announced he was getting baptized. 

“I’ve been a Christian a month now and it’s been a big change,” he posted to X. “Not that I’ve entirely changed as a person, of course I haven’t, but I’ve taken on a lot of new concepts and it changes you to accept that it’s not like you’re in a game show and by doing really, really good things you can get redeemed.” 

“No, repentance, to repent, means that you have to continually change and acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself,” he added. “That I need to surrender myself to an ever-present eternal and accessible Jesus. That mercy is something that’s been given to me, been granted to me, that I live with through love, not something that I can sort of win or achieve by doing good …