How would a psychologist look at the TV series, The Chosen?

What does the portrayal of the characters, namely Jesus, say about how we connect with God?

We'll talk about these questions and a whole lot more with our biolic colleague and psychologist Dr. Liz Hall,

who contributed to a new book entitled Watching The Chosen.

I'm your host, Scott Ray.

I'm your co-host, Sean McTal.

This is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

Liz, thanks so much for being part of this.

I first want to know how did you get interested in the chosen in the first place.

You've contributed a chapter to this book that is different than

any of the other ones that were in here. But what got your attention about the chosen in the

first place? So I've been volunteering with the young adults group at my church for a number of

years now. And during the summer, if you've been involved in young adult ministry, you know how it is.

You never know

who's going to show up from week to week. Your usual crowd isn't there, but kids that are returning

home are there. And so we wanted to come up with kind of a low-key way to keep the ministry going,

but without maybe a whole lot of preparation involved on folks' parts.

And the idea came up to just show an episode of The Chosen every week, and we'd have a

kind of a discussion around it.

Great.

And we've actually done that now for a number of summers because it's been, I don't know,

successful is the way to.

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