Blog by Rich

I believe one of the reasons my faith has remained strong all my life is that every year on the anniversary of my grandpa's death in 1942, my grandma retold the story of how Grandpa  saw heaven.  He died of spinal meningitis, but Grandma, one of the greatest prayer warriors I've ever know...

Joyce and I were hanging out with Nathan when Josh texted to see if we could get together. I asked if Nathan Clarkson could join us. He said, "I just had dinner with someone who said I should connect with Nathan Clarkson!" So I told them both about how a friend gave Patricia Mau...

I was interviewed by Miranda A. Uyeh for her online magazine To Be a Person: Interview ~ Chatting with Actor/Filmmaker, Rich Swingle! She focused mostly on my lead role in the upcoming film  Providence.

During the 2015 Christian Worldview Film Festival Guild one of the classes on offer included the filming of a scene in the upcoming feature  Skydog (formerly Lifestone Velocity). I got to play former U.S. Secretary of Defense, Dr. Alistair Walker, and my character was interviewed by t...

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I got to reprise my role as the slave trader in Polycarp in a review of the film by Zack Lawrence. We filmed the opening sequence at The Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp, where I taught film acting and coached the actors in their student films....

This morning during our outdoor worship experience I mentioned War Room, which was the number one film in the nation going into Sunday. I also mentioned my podcast with more stories from the tour, specifically about my work with Joni and Friends. I preceded the sermon with an illustration from...

I had a blast driving over 2000 miles throughout the Pacific Northwest. You can follow my adventures via #NWTour15 on  Facebook and Instragram.

Here's the itinerary:

Twin Rocks, OR
August 11
part of Big Fish Little Worm
Twin Rocks Friends Camp
Joni and Friends
www.RichDrama.com/BigFishLitt...

This is one of five student films we created at The Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp this summer: "Oncoming Truck."

The excuses we use in evangelism sure sound silly when used to warn people they’re about to be hit by a truck.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/zTIB3UkdMgQ?rel=0

Rich and Joyce Swingle in Indescribable

I had been praying since the mid-90s that I could sell DVDs of films in which I've performed at performances of my one-man plays. It's so exciting to see that prayer being answered as more and more of the films in which I've performed are becoming available.

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Joyce illuminates Exodus 20:16 with Acts 5:1-11.

https://archive.org/embed/SJoyceFalseWitness082315

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I was interviewed this morning on Focus Today on The Dove. You can see the interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/cgD0_s0PMJI?rel=0

You can see my previous interview on The Dove here.

Enjoying a Milky Mulkey Mocha with the Mulkeys who inspired it.

On my tour of the Northwest I got to perform The Revelation with musical interludes by Ron Mulkey, who was my youth pastor a few decades back. It was such a joy to work with him again!

The next evening they hosted some poor from the co...

Pastor Joyce Swingle preached on Exodus 20:15 with Genesis 3:1-7. Pastor Jim Warren opened with John 14:5-7.

Rich Swingle reported on the Salvation Army's TAM Conservatory. Click here for Rich's more full report and to view the student's final performance and the artwork Rich mentioned. Rich m...

Couldn't have asked for a better instructor!
--Catie Harris
Student of Rich at the TAM Conservatory 
Helped create " No/Yes" through sociodrama

I've taught, performed and/or directed at the Salvation Army's  TAM Conservatory for 11 of their 15 years. I've only missed it for the Olympics and performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This year it was just as fulfilling and rewarding as ever!

I got to speak before and after Princess C...

I'll be teaching for the third time at the Christian Worldview Film Festival Guild next March, and I hope you'll join me!

Here's the montage they put together from this year's festival and guild:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/123314057?byline=0&portrait=0
From Media Talk 101 on Vimeo.

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My best friend from seventh grade through college was Ken Redford. During the awkward years of junior high I introduced him to Jesus and the Evangelical Quakers, my denomination at the time. Last week Ken was the main speaker and clerk for the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Evangelical Quakers.

The ...