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On May 14 my article " A Triumph for Life in the NYC Theatre World!" ran on www.HeadlinePrayer.org along with an interview with Phelim McAleer, producer of the play based on the trial of Kermit Gosnell. Phelim included excerpts from our interview in his most recent webisode of The Ann and...
05.24.22 10:33 PM - Comment(s)
Tonight and tomorrow are the last New York City performances of Oh Gosnell: A Show About the Truth. Joyce and I saw it last night, and it was incredibly powerful. I wrote about it for www.HeadlinePrayer.org: " A Triumph for Life in the NYC Theatre World!" It covers the trial of Kermit Gos...
05.14.22 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
The Matter of Life
Tracy Robinson was on Pray with Others Live today talking about her film, The Matter of Life. We’re reposting my article about Robinson’s film because exactly two weeks after the draft majority opinion of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked...
05.10.22 08:17 PM - Comment(s)
Today's my Dad's birthday, so I posted an article about him I recently came across:

Shooting the breeze with the flyboys

Dad in front of a TBM. He flew
one over forest fires when he
was in his 20s.
 
Dad's adventures as a pilot most certainly inspired me to live adventurously for the Lord!

I just...
05.10.22 01:00 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce continues Westchester Chapel's series on "What Happens When a Created People Walk Away From their Creator?" with a message on hospitality from 1 Peter 4:9.  She mentions Luke 9:26, Matthew 24: 4-14, Exodus 24: 1-11, Psalm 23, Hebrews 13: 1-3 and  Matthew 10:40-42....
05.08.22 11:10 PM - Comment(s)

You can hear the interview I did with Allen Wolf, writer and director of the film, at www.RichDrama.com/MovieRecommendations.

I pl...
05.06.22 05:26 PM - Comment(s)

This morning, on the National Day of Prayer, several of us gathered to pray over 11 Broadway theatres either on foot or over video conference. Join us in praying to our God who stands outside of time:

05.06.22 12:35 AM - Comment(s)
I was looking for a National Day of Prayer event in Manhattan, and after being shocked that there wasn't one, it dawned on me that I'd already scheduled our weekly prayer over Broadway theatres on the National Day of Prayer, so I registered it as one of their official events! 

Here are the d...
05.04.22 05:29 AM - Comment(s)
Here's the interview I did with Allen Wolf, writer and director of The Sound of Violet:

https://archive.org/embed/rich-swingle-interview-with-allen-wolf

It's for my article about the film: " Powerful Film Tackles Human Trafficking."

Here are my initial thoughts the night I saw it...

05.02.22 01:37 AM - Comment(s)
One of my profs in grad school, Eric Bentley, was a student of C.S. Lewis at Oxford. Lewis met with him an hour every week, which was the system at the time. Bentley would write a paper and Lewis would go over it with him. One day the paper was particularly red, and between Lewis' criticisms my fut...
04.28.22 09:27 PM - Comment(s)
A blessed Good Friday to you and yours. 

At Westchester Chapel, Eva P.  leads the congregation into contemplation of the horror of sin and the Love of the Cross.  I do a dramatic reading from Mark 15: 1-39 and Rev. 22:12-19.  Eva refers to this artwork by her sister Noemi Co...
04.15.22 04:39 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I led in prayer on six articles on today's program, including the article I wrote, " NPR’s Unintentional Puff Piece on Architect of the Heartbeat Bill." 

Here's my interview with Janet Folger Porter, which includes a fun story of how she got the idea for the Heartbeat Bil...
04.12.22 11:28 PM - Comment(s)
It was a busy Holy Week for us, so I'm a bit late on this but wanted to post it as a way of keeping our minds on Who the Lord is.
     
Joyce encourages all to welcome the King of Glory in this Palm Sunday message from Psalm 24 at Westchester Chapel. Elizabeth S., Eva P. and ...
04.10.22 04:07 PM - Comment(s)

I gave this report from the Seattle-Tacoma Airport flying back to Southern Oregon where we're staying through the end of April: www.RichDrama.com/Schedule. If you've already seen the play elsewhere, I encourage you to watch the introduction by my friend, Pa...
04.07.22 05:28 PM - Comment(s)
I'm looking forward to sharing my one-man play Journey to the Garden at Talent Friends Church on Resurrection Day, April 17, at 11:00 a.m. If you're in the area, I hope you can join us:

Talent Friends Church
50 Talent Avenue
Talent, Oregon

Here's a video I put together about it:

04.07.22 01:19 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I are at the half-way point of our two months in the Pacific Northwest, and we recently took a day-trip to Crater Lake, the deepest lake in America. Here are some of our adventures:


And here's an album from the trip: Crater Lake '22.

Join us f...
03.31.22 01:00 PM - Comment(s)
Today Joyce and I were on Intercessors for America's program Pray with Others Live, and I got to share about an article and video I've literally been working on for months: Targeted Afghanis Tell American Intercessors: “You Are Our Hope” tracking what friends and colleagues of mine on Janet Po...
03.29.22 04:59 PM - Comment(s)
For our Bible study this morning Joyce teaches on the story of Abraham, Sarah, Tamar, Ishmael, Isaac and their descendants from these passages, which she and I read: 

03.28.22 01:39 AM - Comment(s)
Today marks one year that we’ve been praying over Broadway theatres. This one is not live, since I’m in Southern Oregon (www.RichDrama.com/Schedule).


I Dreamed I Was Free tells the story of Quaker abolitionist John Woolman, who spo...
03.11.22 01:22 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce and  led Intercessors for America in praying over six articles from www.HeadlinePrayer.org yesterday, one of which I wrote: " While Mandates Fall, Don't Drop Your Guard," which is a follow-up to my previous article, “ Oregon’s Radical Approach to Covid-19.”

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03.09.22 11:06 PM - Comment(s)

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