Why Christianity is a pilgrimage — not a vacation

Why Christianity is a pilgrimage — not a vacation


Last summer, I toured the set of “The Chosen,” sprawling across Camp Hoblitzelle in Midlothian, Texas, not far from Mercury Studios, where Blaze Media calls home.

My parish priest came along. He said the opening blessing.

Every generation gets to choose whether or not to abandon Christianity forever.

None of the cast or crew were there, so we got to see the set in its most humble form, its bare life.

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We stood in a first-century village built from scratch on Salvation Army land — a gift, Derral Eves told me, both for the show and for Bible education.

Eves is the executive producer and marketing mind behind “The Chosen,” the global television phenomenon that has drawn in millions of

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