Blog by Rich

I was in the control booth at Moody Bible Institute, getting ready for my performance for the national Christians in Theatre Arts (CITA.org) conference. In the auditorium below a college drama showcase was starting up. The piece that started it off was a play by Jeff Barker called Sioux Center Sudan...
06.18.07 10:26 AM - Comment(s)

I'm in the Moody Bible Institute Museum, which contains 2,500 signatures requesting that Dwight L. Moody and Ira B. Sankey come to Scotland. I hope there are many in Scotland today that want to hear more about Eric Liddell, one of their national heroes, through Beyond the Chariots.
06.16.07 05:56 PM - Comment(s)
I've never enjoyed anything so much in my life!
-- Maryann Andonian, Vancouver, WA
06.12.07 11:39 PM - Comment(s)
Cindy Sebring has been bringing me down to the DC area to perform and teach at her public school since the mid-90s.  She was just awarded a very significant prize...

News Release
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Cynthia J. Sebring Named Cambridge Who's Who
Professional of the Year in Secondary School E...
06.11.07 04:09 PM - Comment(s)
Amazing Grace opens in Australia today.

Ken Wales is the producer who started the ball rolling on Amazing Grace. He wants to make a film on the rest of the Chariots Of Fire story. He mentions the upcoming film, With Wings as Eagles in an interview with Christianity Today: Save the Wales.

If yo...
06.08.07 07:42 PM - Comment(s)
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 ...
06.08.07 07:31 PM - Comment(s)
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.
06.06.07 01:00 PM - Comment(s)
We're throwing them back now, so we didn't measure it, but it was close to my first one. My second was 25".
05.31.07 04:09 PM - Comment(s)
...an 18" rock fish.
05.31.07 11:51 AM - Comment(s)
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.
05.31.07 09:31 AM - Comment(s)
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.
05.25.07 07:59 PM - Comment(s)
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.
05.25.07 04:20 PM - Comment(s)
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.
05.24.07 08:14 PM - Comment(s)
I was in Singapore in October of 2001 to perform in the musical Judah Ben Hur. Before I met Art Sanborn I was told that I would never guess that he was a quadraplegic and had no feeling in much of his body. I thought, "Yeah, right!" It was well into my conversation with him at a dinner th...
05.24.07 06:33 PM - Comment(s)
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 ...
05.24.07 04:32 PM - Comment(s)
A friend of ours is gearing up for some great work in Poland:

I have been involved with an organization called Joni and Friends. This organization was founded in 1978 by a young woman who sustained a spinal cord injury in a diving accident. This group ministers to people with disabilities both in t...

05.23.07 09:54 PM - Comment(s)

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.
05.17.07 11:13 PM - Comment(s)
From the Prairie Schooner in Texas to a City Flat in New York
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'...
05.16.07 10:10 PM - Comment(s)

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