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For our centennial celebration on the Metro NY District, Rich Swingle did a superb and unforgettable portrayal of C.B. Jernigan (who founded the district). I had to remind myself a few times that it was you and not C.B. himself! 

--Larry Mancini
Pastor Bay Shore Church of the Nazarene

I felt ...

Yesterday at Westchester ChapelJoyce introduced the Bethlahem Candle on the Advent Wreath. She also led prayer and gave announcements.  There was an error with the recording, so I recorded a summary of the end of the sermon.

Sometime early in this millennium Joyce and I brought a couple of my one-man plays to a missionary retreat on the Costa Brava, near Barcelona, Spain. There we met some missionaries who used some little costumes they'd made to do Chinkin sketches. They kindly let us borrow them, and later we used th...

Some of those special moments of my career have been ones that I've looked forward to for months or years: Performing  Beyond the Chariots for Eric Liddell's family, performing Off-Broadway with Roger Nelson--one of the fellows who inspired me to this career--the first time I walked into a the...

I made shrimp and grits for our church's men's group this morning. Even better was Pastor Randy's lesson on Daniel in the Lion's Den. I've loved that story since I was a boy, but Pastor Randy helped us see it in a whole new light!

Daniel's Answer to the King Briton Rivère (1890) Manchester Art Galle...

Hattie Kauffman spoke at the latest Mastermedia NYC event, and shared the story she kept buried for decades. While the Emmy-award-winning journalist was interviewing leaders of state, Olympians and astronauts she was still reeling from the pain of growing up in a family split by alcoholism. Her pa...

I just did ADR (additional digital recording) for the film Rather to Be Chosen, in which Joyce and I play the parents of the protagonist.

To celebrate one step closer to the film's release I'm posting this video we put together of the transitional shave. Just before filming in the spring I still h...

Zack Lawrence, with whom I'll be teach this summer at the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp, said every Christian in America should watch Seven Deadly Words. It tells the story of a church at a crisis, and dealing with it in some ungodly ways, which leads to a poor witness to the hurting wor...

At the Christian Worldview Film Festival and Guild we had dinner with the Austin family. Amelia played our daughter, her brother Micah was second assistant camera operator, and their mother, Liz, worked on our hair and makeup.

They picked my brain about directing the young protagonist of this swee...