Blog by Rich

Christy, produced by Ken Wales, is now out on DVD...

Christy: The Complete Series, DVD Set By Fox Faith Now the television series based on Catherine Marshall's award-winning novel comes in one affordable boxed set! Christy: The Complete Series features 19 episodes about Christy Huddleston's life as a ...

One of my students, Kathryn Ballantine, just came out with an album. Not that I taught her anything about singing... Songs My Father Taught Me.

We're throwing them back now, so we didn't measure it, but it was close to my first one. My second was 25".

...an 18" rock fish.

We're in Washington DC to celebrate Joyce's father's 70th birthday. So why are we seeing the Capitol at sunrise? We're en route to go deep sea fishing.

Lloyd Smith attended my performance of Beyond the Chariots in Vancouver, Washington. He snapped 53 shots, including this one of me in the jacket given to me by Eric Liddell's sister-in-law, Louise McLean. To see all the shots click here.

The Metro New York District has this picture on the front page of their site today: MNYNaz.com. They mention my performance at District Assembly and that I'm planning on doing the piece on the road.

My agent, Dale Savidge, is directing an Off-Broadway one-man play about the Ananias that prayed to return sight to Saul after his Damascas Road encounter.  It runs June 1-3: Ananias.

In his book The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell claims that humans are only capable of remembering 150 names and relationships at any given time. Traveling and meeting as many people as I do I know this number can be expanded. Rich Liedtke (father of my good freind Fritz blows my list out of the ...

The Metro New York Church of the Nazarene is celebrating its centennial anniversary. As a part of the celebration we're receiving 100 new members just from the Spanish speaking churches. I can count 17 flags representing their home countries.

Friday night I'll portray CB Jernigan for the District Assembly of the Metro New York Church of the Nazarene. We're celebrating our centenial, and Jernigan was the District's superintendant in the 1920s. He, like I, moved from the country to the biggest city in the US. Most of the words of Jernigan'...

...to flying at dawn.

I had an unexpected booking in San Diego. I'm sad that it's too cold for body surfing, but I'm about to run through the waves. If you read the post below, you'll be relieved to know that I have on more than when we did this in college.

We got to have lunch with Mel and Carol Schroeder. Mel was one of my professors of theatre in college. I remember exactly where we were when he encouraged me to write. He reminded me that Beyond the Chariots brings my association with Chariots of Fire full circle. I had forgotten that I introduced a...

...we would attend The Well (TheWellChurch.com). We joined our friends Fritz and Shannon Liedtke (FritzPhoto.com) here and were blown away by this wonderful community. The average age is about 30, though in a Mothers Day competition for a Starbucks gift card we learned that the oldest mom is 75. The...

Joyce and I had a wonderful afternoon on the backroads along the Columbia River Gorge. We got off I-84 at Troutdale, stopped at the first gas station to find out where the old highway was. He gave us a free map with all the parks and waterfalls leading up to Multnomah Falls.