Denzel Washington! It’s not fashionable to be religious in Hollywood, but I don’t care what anyone thinks
“The biggest moment of my life was when I was filled with the Holy Spirit,” Denzel Washington wrote in his first-person ‘Esquire’ essay.
Denzel Washington is opening up about his faith. In Washington’s first-person essay for Esquire, published Tuesday, Nov. 19, the actor, 69, reflected on an impactful first visit he took to the Pentecostal West Angeles church
in Los Angeles at the suggestion of actor and director Robert Townsend in the 1980s. “The biggest moment of my life was when I was filled with the Holy Spirit,” he wrote of the experience.
The actor, who added that his faith is stronger today than when he was a child, opined that being outspoken about your religion is somewhat discouraged amongst his peers in the industry.
“Things I said about God when I was a little boy, just reciting them in church along with everybody else, I know now. God is real. God is love. God is the only way. God is the true way.
God blesses. It’s my job to lift God up, to give Him praise, to make sure that anyone and everyone I speak to the rest of my life understands that He is responsible for me,” Washington wrote in his essay.
