Ep 726 | 'The Chosen:' Questions & Controversies | Guest: Dallas Jenkins

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today we're joined by Dallas Jenkins, creator and writer/director/producer of "The Chosen," the first multi-season show on the life of Jesus. We talk about his career in filmmaking and how a career failure led to an important lesson that changed his life. He shares why he created the show and why it seems to resonate so deeply with people. Then, we discuss how much work truly goes into writing a show that uses the Bible as its source. The goal, for Dallas, is to ask, "What is biblically plausible?" as he gets insight from biblical, historical, and cultural scholars to craft the characters. We discuss criticism of the show, much of which has centered around skepticism about LDS involvement in the show's distribution. And ultimately Dallas reminds us that while "The Chosen" is based on the Bible and the life of Jesus and his disciples, it doesn't claim to be the Bible, as only the Bible itself is the true authority. You can watch the third season of "The Chosen" on the Chosen app. --- Timecodes: (01:14) Dallas' introduction to film (07:05) Views on success (19:03) Biblical accuracy and creativity (23:20) Handling criticism (27:25) Mormon controversies (43:27) Clip from season 3 (45:20) Trusting God in the midst of pain --- Today's Sponsors: Good Ranchers — change the way you shop for meat today by visiting GoodRanchers.com/ALLIE and use promo code 'ALLIE' for a discount! Carly Jean Los Angeles — use promo code 'ALLIEB' to save 20% off your first order at CarlyJeanLosAngeles.com! PublicSq. — download the PublicSq app from the App Store or Google Play, create a free account, and begin your search for freedom-loving businesses! --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 725 | Leaving Mormonism for Christianity | Guest: Lynn Wilder https://apple.co/3W0TVnH --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE20' for 20% off the entire shop: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Chosen is a wildly popular show about the life of Jesus Christ.
0:05.2	It's received a lot of praise as well as its fair share of criticism.
0:09.9	And here to discuss all of those things is the creator of the show, Dallas Jenkins.
0:14.8	We will talk about his life, his story, what led him to create the Chosen.
0:20.0	And we will also talk about some of the pushback that the show has received,
0:24.9	including the controversies surrounding his comments about Mormonism and Jesus.
0:31.1	It's a great conversation. I know that you're going to love it.
0:34.3	This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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0:41.0	That's GoodRanchers.com. Code Allie.
0:42.9	I appreciate you having me. This is great.
0:56.2	Yeah, so many people out there love the Chosen. A lot of people have questions for you about the Chosen.
1:03.1	Let's first back up before even you started this series. I know a lot of people probably know
1:09.0	your story, but if you could just give us a little summary of how you got into the Christian media biz.
1:14.9	Well, my father is Jerry Jenkins. He wrote the Left Behind Books.
1:19.0	And so those were huge. They're still pretty big, but back in the day, about 25 years ago,
1:24.0	they were pretty huge. And there was a movie being developed based on the first Left Behind
1:30.2	Book when I was in college. And I had been wanting to get into film in some way.
1:36.7	I mean, I was, I remember seeing the movie One Flute of the Cuckoo's Nest when I was in high school.
1:40.8	Yeah. And that movie changed my life. I was like, whatever that is, I want to do that.
1:44.6	What was it about that movie?
1:47.4	Well, there was a scene. I was watching it in my home. It was on TV.
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