Hear the Apostle Paul speak to you from the New Testament book of Galatians. This Bible series is a dramatized and paraphrased portrayal of Paul speaking to the Gentile believers of Galatia urging them not to abandon the gospel he preached to them nor to doubt his authenticity as an apostle. He urges them to live by faith in the promise of freedom and not be enslaved by the law of Moses. 

This was a difficult letter to interpret as an actor. Paul says some rather stern things. He is certainly angry with the "Judaizers" and disappointed with the Galatians. In an earlier experiment with this video, a friend told me that she came away not liking Paul at all. I  had made him seem so arrogant, condescending, and hate-filled. It's easy to speak out his words with a harsh, judgmental edge in his voice.

 As I pressed further into the letter I realized that Paul's relationship to the Galatians was like that of a loving father to his own children. He even says so. With this in mind I retooled by approach to portraying him. I tried not convey Paul as viciously angry, but as frustrated and wounded. He wanted to instruct and redirect his listeners rather than scold and chastise them. As for the false teachers and the "super apostles" who contradicted and belittled him and his gospel, he would simply leave them to the judgment of God.

There are parts of these videos I could have voiced a bit more forcefully, but I chose to emphasize Paul's tender heart which I have discovered to be so prevalent in his other epistles.