Hey, this is Meredith. We're going to take this week off for a short summer break. My family's headed

to Yellowstone to take an old faithful, and we're going to Mount Rushmore and the badlands. I am super

excited. Maybe you're road tripping this summer too. Well, a great way to pass the miles is binge

listening to the unfolding. And this episode from the Archives, this is a perfect

place to start. When I interviewed Dallas Jenkins last year, The Chosen, it's the first ever

multi-season television show about the life of Christ. They had just launched season one.

Since then, they've launched season two, and the show has reached millions. But the story that came

before the chosen may be just the inspiration you need to hear today. Page 47 of the unfolding is the

story of Dallas Jenkins. When the box office numbers come out, you can tell within a couple hours

of what it's going to be like that weekend. And it was very clear immediately that the movie was a total bomb financially. And so within about two hours,

I went from a director with a very bright future to a director with no future.

God's story has been unfolding. Since the beginning of time.

He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

Hi, this is Meredith Foster. Nobody sets out to be a failure. We avoid it, dread it, try to move past it as fast as we can. But what if failure is exactly what we need? Dallas Jenkins is the director of The Chosen, the first ever multi-season show about the life of Christ.

But long before The Chosen, Dallas dreamed of making it big in Hollywood. He didn't want to make faith-based films. Dallas and his dad, author Jerry Jenkins, started a company, and he produced

his first film. It was called hometown legend when he was just 25 years old.

He was on the path, focused on achieving big-time Hollywood success. I would say that I, up until

three years ago, which we can get into in a few minutes, but up until about three years ago,

I always, my hopes remain the same, which was I wanted to win an Academy Award,

and I wanted to make movies with Hollywood, with some of the biggest producers in Hollywood. I wanted

to essentially make it, for lack of a better term, even though a hometown legend got picked up by a

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