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How “The Chosen” Spurred a Golden Age of Christian Filmmaking

By Rachel Monroe · The New Yorker · May 2026
How “The Chosen” Spurred a Golden Age of Christian Filmmaking
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"Dallas Jenkins’s show, a prestige drama about Jesus’ life that became the biggest crowdfunded television project in history, has come to model the sort of bottom-up, fandom-first entertainment that is quietly reshaping the industry. Rachel Monroe reports."

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