Xianz.com, the faith based alternative to Myspace, has now launched it’s own video service. Xianz Watch will now enable members to view, upload and share videos. Although just launched, Xianz Watch has hundreds of videos already uploaded. Being called a family friendly alternative to YouTube, Xianz Watch supports over 20 video formats. Other features include a video messaging system that allows easy communication and the ability to add video sharing buddies. Xianz Watch is currently open to the public at www.Xianz.com/watch
“By the end of February, we hope to have several thousand videos”, says Robbie Davidson, founder of Xianz.com. “We are very excited and a bit surprised to see how quickly our members are embracing Xianz Watch and adding content to it daily.”
Xianz, pronounced ‘Zanz”, is shorthand for Christians. The ‘X” is from the Greek letter, Chi, the first letter of Christ.
Here’s one of the videos recently uploaded on Xianz Watch – a ‘Get A Mac’ spoof featuring Christian and Christ Follower (rather than PC and Mac), part of ‘Christian No More’ from Community Christian Church in Naperville, Illinois. Ironically the four videos uploaded by Danny Z question the whole premise of Xianz. Is being a follower of Jesus really about developing a parallel universe distinguished by bumper stickers, good Evangelical reading, JPod Contemporary Christian music, and best Sunday clothes? Is it really about living in an environment populated only by family-friendly Christians? It’s good to see the series is up on YouTube as well. Click on the image below to play the video in YouTube.
Thanks for that Duncan. Very interesting. I’ll link a reference at http://mattstone.blogs.com
I have to admit to having some misgivings about the ‘Christ-follower’ vids – partly ’cause I don’t like dissing other Xianz, and partly ’cause I don’t really *want* to differentiate between Christians and Christ-followers – rather I want *all* Christians to *be* Christ followers.
Nevertheless there is a truth at the heart of these vids – that Christianity is not something you pull on like an accessory; not, as you say, about some Bizzaro world parallel universe. So I downloaded them and was going to use them at a recent Youth Service at which I spoke (was going to due to a technical hitch).
I do think US$10 is way too rich for what they are and the quality you get!