I wrote back in February about the conversion of Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, formerly an agnostic. And then a month later about the transformation through the gospel of a village in Viet Nam. God is at work in all kinds of ways…including The Chosen, a series I’ve written about and highly endorsed.

In Meet the Non-Christian Fans of The Chosen, Christopher Kuo tells stories of people all over the world, including atheists and Muslims, who are coming to faith through watching The Chosen. I recommend the article in its entirety. What’s remarkable is this story not in the article.

Converts include the agnostic husband of Christianity Today editorial director of news Kate Shellnutt who wrote:

I wasn’t sure what to think when my husband, a lifelong agnostic who wasn’t raised in church, started bingeing The Chosen last summer.

My husband had been scrolling through apologetics videos on YouTube when ads directed him to the series. He watched it without me. It was unexpected viewing, sure, but I told myself not to get my hopes up. Plenty of people watch the show. Plenty of people admire the person and stories of Jesus without placing faith in him.

Turns out, I had reason to hope. During the Sermon on the Mount scene, my husband later told me, he felt something shift inside him. He felt it again when he immediately read the Gospel of Matthew—then the rest of the New Testament. He came to faith about six weeks later.

God and the Gospel are clearly on the move!

Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. (Philippians 1.12, NIV)

…the true message of the gospel that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world… (Colossians 1.5, 6, NIV)