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I just got done rehearsing Beyond the Chariots for my performance tomorrow at The Revolution School of Worship and Technology in St. Louis (on the campus of Destiny Church). It was a bit of a dress rehearsal since some people who won't be here tomorrow watched. One of them was Judah Davis, pictured ...

03.28.06 10:04 PM - Comment(s)
In Beyond the Chariots Eric Liddell's life-long friend, AP Cullen (Uncle Rooper), mentions a "seven-year old chap who was weeping inconsolably." The boy was crying as eight-year old Eric protected him from a hazing by some teens. Today I'm weeping inconsolably because the Lord stood up for...
03.18.06 05:51 PM - Comment(s)
I just got off the phone with Tim Mercaldo, one of the pastors at Gateway Cathedral. He watches Chariots Of Fire every year and Eric Liddell is a huge hero of his! He invited me to perform an excerpt at two of their services on March 26.
03.16.06 09:00 PM - Comment(s)
Thank you so much for coming to our school and bringing us such inspiration and positive energy!! We all benefited from your visit. It was great to meet you and I'm so excited about the work that you do. Praise the Lord! I will pray for your continued success as you reach out to others. The stu...
03.15.06 12:53 PM - Comment(s)
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03.14.06 01:21 PM - Comment(s)
Eric Liddell's youngest daughter, Maureen, sent me the following:

Here is a story my Father would have loved and I thought you might too: True Sportsmanship.


In the research and interviews I've done with people that knew Eric Liddell, I've found that he was the kind of man this story is ab...
03.13.06 11:25 PM - Comment(s)
"Thus far all feedback has been very praising and grateful for A Clear Leading (I Dreamed I Was Free). The general consensus is that you brought us back to our roots."
Tom Wolfe
Clerk, Religious Education
Adelphi Friends Meeting
03.13.06 06:27 PM - Comment(s)
While getting ready to perform Beyond the Chariots a while back Kathy (pictured in the white hat) gave a big wave. After the performance she told me that she and several friends (some of whom are pictured here) had come to Rock Hill Church of the Nazarene just to see my last performance there ( The ...
03.11.06 06:24 PM - Comment(s)
"We so appreciated the work you did with our students and the opportunity to see your show ( Beyond the Chariots). As I've read through my students' journal reflections on the workshops I'm blessed again at seeing how much, and how many different things, they learned from you.

"Thank y...
03.09.06 04:33 PM - Comment(s)

I just performed A Clear Leading here in Washington, DC. The play is about John Woolman, a Quaker, who spoke against slavery 100 years before Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

There was an African-American gentleman in the audience, and after the play I told him how uncomfortable I always...

03.06.06 08:11 PM - Comment(s)
I just got off the phone with John Kirby, acting coach for Jim Caviezel and Narnia. He offered to stay a second day, practically doubling the benefit to MasterWorks students this summer.

Sign up while there's still room: MasterWorksFestival.org.

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03.04.06 07:53 PM - Comment(s)
I missed New York City's deepest snow storm on record as I was performing and teaching in TN, OR & HK. So it's actually nice to have a bit of the white stuff here in Rochester.

03.02.06 12:07 AM - Comment(s)

Most Broadway shows start at 8pm. Every night at curtains up Hong Kong puts on a show, but it's for everyone with a view of the city. Many of the buildings are linked into a coordinated light show. It's quite an elaborate spectacle.

02.27.06 08:50 AM - Comment(s)

Yesterday we had a memorial service for a dear friend, Jim Warren, Sr. This morning in church our friend, Kenny, told us that he wanted to cut his hair to commemorate Jim's 20 year military career in which he served in three wars. Kenny couldn't decide which military cut was right, so he went with N...

02.26.06 07:07 PM - Comment(s)

"Great performance--authentic, moving, thought provoking!"
--Dr. James Hudson Taylor III
Great-grandson of Hudson Taylor, who founded the China Inland Mission, now Overseas Mission Fellowship International
When he was a boy, Dr. Taylor was in the concentration camp with Eric Liddell.

02.23.06 02:37 PM - Comment(s)
Dr. Jim Hudson Taylor, III, a great-grandson of the "Father of Modern Missions," was able to see Beyond the Chariots here in Hong Kong. He was a boy in the Japanese concentration camp, where Eric spent his last years. Dr. Taylor gave me some details that helped finesse the script, and he s...
02.21.06 07:09 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I had the honor of meeting HK Cheng. He was a student of Eric Liddell's at the Tientsin Anglo-Chinese College, featured in my play Beyond the Chariots.

Mr. Cheng runs his own engineering firm in Hong Kong, so I asked him to reflect on the gold medalist/science teacher's greatest contributi...

02.21.06 06:57 AM - Comment(s)
I was about to perform Beyond the Chariots for the Mandarin Bible Church, which meets on the 27th floor of a building on Hong Kong Island.

As I was admiring the view I discovered that the great-grandson of Hudson Taylor attends the church. Hudson Taylor is considered the Father of Modern Missions, ...
02.21.06 12:35 AM - Comment(s)
Whether you're here to review the play or you're a friend, family member, or a stranger who blessed us, I'm happy to share this free screener to my one-man play I Dreamed I Was Free.

Please don't share the link with others unless I told you to share it with someone specifically. Please send others to...

02.20.06 06:02 AM - Comment(s)
We're looking through the floor of the Macau Tower.
Pray for Macau. That was the hardest day of the trip though it was our only full day of leisure. On Monday we found out that it's dubbed the Missionary Graveyard. There are more prostitutes than Christians and 40% of all workers are employed by...
02.19.06 09:13 AM - Comment(s)

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