Blog by Rich

I played Mr. Cole, a banker in this Civil War era short film, written and starring Rachel Hendrix from October Baby.

This marks my tenth film with Rebekah Cook.

Find out more at www.TheStayingKindFilm.com.

Joyce prayed for the persecuted church after Adrienne C. talks about what Christians are facing around the world.  Pastor Randy Solomon preaches on Luke 6:27-36, drawing from his experience as an engineer with illustrations of how we get our power for lights and hair dryers, always searching ...

Here's the first music video in the runup to the limited nationwide release of  Providence through AMC Independent...

I play one of the leads, though it's my character's teen self that's featured in this one.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5uqnXLlefjw?rel=0

The outdoor performance was steps away from what used to be John Woolman's orchard.

I got to perform A Clear Leading, my one-man play about John Woolman at the John Woolman Memorial for their centennial celebration!

Woolman spoke against slavery a century before America's Civil War, and after the p...

Happy 50th Birthday to Sean Gaffney!

Sean and I in Colorado, July 1995.

Sean launched a 20 year career in the performing arts for me. I’m sure that’s not what he had in mind when he invited me to drive out to Seattle from NYC to take the position of managing director at Taproot Theatre, but when I ...

We were bummed we weren't able to make it to Detroit to watch the world premiere of The Messenger's Box, but I was delighted to hear from a gentleman who watched us filming that day:

I WAS IMPRESSED ! ! !  You were shown right at the start on the spiral stone steps giving the box  to Simo...

Joyce and I opened this morning's service at Westchester Chapel. You can hear me talk about the ways I've tangibly seen the Lord at work through the daily discipline of praying on the Armor of God, which is asking Jesus Christ to cover every area of our lives.

https://archive.org/embed/SJimArmor1004...

We got to see a pre-release screening of  Woodlawn and it's outstanding AND completely uncompromising. John 14:6 is at the top of their posters: "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'"

It tells the story o...

Joyce and I recently saw a pre-release screening of Captive at The Sheen Center.

It's a very powerful film about how Ashley Smith, played by Kate Mara ( Fantastic Four), was held captive by Brian Nichols, played by David Oyelowo (Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma),  in her own home for seven ...

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...