Ewan McGregor and the Last Days in the Desert

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Ewan McGregor is on the podcast. Tripp got to chat with Ewan and director Rodrigo Garcia about the movie Last Days in the Desert. Then he got to talk it up with producer and Texan Bonnie Curtis about her own spiritual experience of making a Jesus film. She is #AwesomeSauce. The official film description is: Last Days in the Desert follows Jesus (Ewan McGregor) in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, he struggles with the Devil, also played by McGregor, over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test with distinctly human conflicts. After the interview, Tripp and Nathan unpack some of the themes from the movie: The temptations and Jesus' identity Nietzsche's critique of Christianity The difference between being cured, and being healed Divine flatus Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, Homebrew, Christianity, listeners.
0:02.1	This is Tripp, and I'm here with Nathan.
0:03.8	Say hi, Nathan.
0:04.4	Hi, Nathan.
0:06.0	Nathan.
0:07.8	We had a little fun together, and this is not your normal nerdy engagement, but if you get to talk to someone who has been a spiritual leader in the desert twice, once as Son of God, another time as Obi-1 Kenobi, then you don't turn that down.
0:30.4	Absolutely.
0:31.0	So we're going to talk to you in McGregor and Rodrigo Garcia about the brand new book.
0:37.0	See, isn't that sad?
0:39.8	I don't ever, all we do is talk about books.
0:42.8	We're going to talk about a movie, actually.
0:44.6	Last Days in the Desert.
0:46.8	And you should go to the website, Last Days in Desert.com.
0:49.1	You can go to Homebrewd Christianity.com, and then you can click through and find out because
0:52.4	on the 13th of May, it's like going to be in like really cool theaters all over the country. There's a few spots open on the 12th for a preview show. So get there and do that. You know what I'm saying? Because it's a movie about Jesus, except it has Obi-1 Kenobi in it.
1:12.1	That's like the best, like, nerd bait of all time.
1:14.5	Yeah, I mean, it's no lightsabers, though.
1:16.7	No lightsabers.
1:18.2	But you could say the force.
1:19.7	The force was in it.
1:21.3	Anyway, the movie was actually super excellent amazing beautiful picture it was awesome and we got to talk to
1:33.4	uh youa mcgregor and rodrigo gossia um and so before before we go to our interview
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