S2 Ep1085: Pride Flags and The Chosen: Dallas Jenkins

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Dallas Jenkins is an American film and television director, writer and film producer. He is best known as the creator, director and co-writer of The Chosen, the first multi-season series about the life of Jesus. In this conversation, we talk about his heart and philosophy behind The Chosen, including the role that creativity plays in opening up the biblical account Christ. We also discuss the recent controversy over Christians being upset that a gay cameraman had a 3 inch pride flag on his own equipment on set.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rom. I guess today is the one
0:03.7	and only Dallas Jenkins. Dallas is an American film and television director, writer and film producer,
0:08.8	best known as the creator, director and co-writer of The Chosen, the first multi-season series about
0:15.2	the life of Jesus. In this podcast episode, we talk about The Chosen, his heart behind that show,
0:21.5	which I find to be absolutely incredible. And then we also talk about a recent controversy that he
0:27.3	and his crew have gotten in regarding a three-inch pride flag that was posted on one of his
0:34.6	camera man's pieces of equipment. Maybe you've heard about that as kind of all of everywhere on
0:39.0	the internet. So we do talk about that in the last half of the conversation. So please welcome
0:43.0	to the show for the first time. They want to know me. Dallas Jenkins.
0:46.4	Dallas, thanks so much for being a guest on The All-Drawn. I'm really, really excited about this
0:59.2	conversation. Yeah, I appreciate you having me on. I like what you do. And we mentioned off the
1:04.4	air. We're both a little bit raw and tend to be un-sexored, which sometimes we're talking about
1:10.2	the issues of Jesus and LGBTQ and human sexuality. Very easy to cover, very easy to nuance through,
1:16.6	sometimes it can lead us to some problems. But I appreciate that. I just literally just finished
1:20.6	watching your 20-minute response on the whole Pride flag thing that we'll get to. But I just
1:25.2	I loved your response. I just loved your demeanor and everything. I haven't heard you speak
1:28.7	before. So I was like, oh, I feel like this is gonna be a great conversation. So yeah, I'm excited
1:33.2	about it. Before we get to the whole three-inch pride flag on your camera man's computer.
1:39.6	Sorry. Yeah, I'm gonna try to, yeah, behave myself here. Let's go back and where did the idea of
1:46.0	the chosen coming to play? Like what birth this amazing? I mean, I'm a fan. This is absolutely
1:52.1	incredible what you've done with this. Where did it, where did it start? Yeah, thank you. Well,
1:56.0	it was birth from failure, actually. I did a feature film. I'd done multiple movies and projects
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