{"id":1143214,"date":"2021-12-22T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143214"},"modified":"2021-12-22T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:04:53","slug":"denzel-washington-says-he-wanted-to-please-god-with-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/denzel-washington-says-he-wanted-to-please-god-with-new-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington Says He Wanted To \u2018Please God\u2019 With New Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdenzel-washington-says-he-wanted-to-please-god-with-new-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1143214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Denzel Washington has never been shy about discussing his Christian faith. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/denzel-washington-advises-crowd-at-christian-event-to-stay-on-your-knees-says-strength-and-leadership-are-part-of-gods-role-for-men\">previously<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/im-a-god-fearing-man-denzel-washington-explains-his-christian-beliefs-to-new-york-times-dismisses-hollywood-focus-on-racial-diversity\">reported<\/a>, he has been particularly outspoken lately, giving a conference talk to young men in September where he advised them to \u201cstay on [their] knees,\u201d and earlier this month telling The New York Times that he attempts to live his life in such a way that will honor God and his late grandmother. In that same interview, he encouraged columnist Maureen Dowd to read the Bible and start with the New Testament.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/12\/21\/director-denzel-washington-i-wanted-to-please-god-with-movie-about-soldier\/\">Religious News Service<\/a>, published December 21, he explained that his latest directorial project was part of his effort to live a God-pleasing life.<\/p>\n<p>The film \u201cA Journal For Jordan,\u201d which stars Michael B. Jordan as an Iraq war veteran, was based on the life of real Army Sergeant Charles Monroe King, who was killed in action in 2006. His wife, former New York Times journalist Dana Canedy told the story of the journal he left behind for their then-infant son in an article that detailed her husband\u2019s faith. That article was developed into a book that was later developed into a script that Washington came on board to direct.<\/p>\n<p>RNS asked the 66-year-old Oscar winner about reports that before launching into filming, he would gather the cast and crew together for a time of prayer. Washington confirmed that he did \u201csometimes\u201d do that. \u201cI\u2019m a believer. Dana\u2019s a believer. So that was a part of every decision, hopefully, that I tried to make,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI wanted to please God, and I wanted to please Charles, and I wanted to please Dana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the interview, while talking about his spiritual mentors, Washington said, \u201cI try to make sure I try to put God first in everything. I was reading something this morning in my meditation about selfishness and how the only way to true independence is complete dependence on the Almighty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Canedy, too, shared how her Christian faith informed the story, saying she didn\u2019t grow up as a regular church-goer, so had always assumed that if she lost someone close to her, she would feel angry with God. But she says that didn\u2019t turn out to be the case:<\/p>\n<p><em>I felt enveloped in [God\u2019s] love and uplifted by knowing that I can get through this with my faith. There were all these signs, from the moment he died, that God was with me and Charles was with us, very specific things. Like coming home one day, three days after he died, from a military base where I had to fill out all this paperwork \u2014 we hadn\u2019t buried him yet. And I remember walking in the door, thinking my son \u2014 who was a 6-month-old, I was holding him \u2014 suddenly he was heavy. And I thought, Charles, how am I going to do this? Please give me a sign you\u2019re still here. And this was a time when we all had answering machines at home. I turned on the answering machine. And one of his soldiers is calling from Iraq, saying, \u201cHe gave me your phone number and made me promise that if anything ever happened to him, I would call you and tell you he loves you and you\u2019re going to be OK.\u201d That was God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Journal for Jordan\u201d opens in theaters Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denzel Washington has never been shy about discussing his Christian faith. As The Daily Wire previously reported, he has been particularly outspoken lately, giving a conference talk to young men in September where he advised them to \u201cstay on [their] knees,\u201d and earlier this month telling The New York Times that he attempts to live &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}