A friend of ours is putting together a video series about the places where Jesus lived and walked. Our family has watched the entire first episode and it was really neat. (OK, so it's fun watching Narinay because we know her. But the show itself was pretty cool, too.) ;-)Narinay lives in the Holy Land. The idea of the series is that a young girl (She's about the twins' age.) who lives in the Holy Land today introduces you to places where Jesus walked 2000 years ago. She sees it both as it is now and tries to imagine it as it was then. So you get a sense of the reality of place -- Jesus actually walked here. You also see a lot of holy sites that are, by tradition, the site of an event in Jesus life on earth. So you end up getting a sense of the time and tradition between then and now as well.
What I particularly like about it is that this is Narinay's home. She's not coming in from America and telling kids about this place. She's walking out her back door and introducing us to places that are in some sense "in her back yard." I especially got that feeling with one man that she interviewed that she explained was a friend of the family. Wow! Suddenly you realize that this isn't all just stuff for scholars and textbooks. There are actual people who have learned about this stuff and they're so real that you could have them over to your house for dinner if you wanted. It just seemed to make it more real and down to earth.
So here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GG8zMwzbN0
It looks like they made it so that you can't embed it. This is just a quick promotional shot (like a commercial) so you can get a sense of what the show is all about. I think the entire first series is done and Brian is currently looking for funding for the next series.
Here's a link to another promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG71xueBalg
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