Blog by Rich

Rich Swingle... I just now realized that I saw you on TV the other night...and did not even realize it was you. Although I am not that familiar with who you are...I have seen you in the trailer for The Unexpected Bar Mitzvah. Just now...I was watching your reel... (after reading your eCard) and was...

We flew to Montana for  Joyce's uncle's funeral. We were honored to take part in the funeral, and you can hear our contributions below.

For our centennial celebration on the Metro NY District, Rich Swingle did a superb and unforgettable portrayal of C.B. Jernigan (who founded the district). I had to remind myself a few times that it was you and not C.B. himself! 

--Larry Mancini
Pastor Bay Shore Church of the Nazarene

I felt ...

Yesterday at Westchester ChapelJoyce introduced the Bethlahem Candle on the Advent Wreath. She also led prayer and gave announcements.  There was an error with the recording, so I recorded a summary of the end of the sermon.

Sometime early in this millennium Joyce and I brought a couple of my one-man plays to a missionary retreat on the Costa Brava, near Barcelona, Spain. There we met some missionaries who used some little costumes they'd made to do Chinkin sketches. They kindly let us borrow them, and later we used th...

Some of those special moments of my career have been ones that I've looked forward to for months or years: Performing  Beyond the Chariots for Eric Liddell's family, performing Off-Broadway with Roger Nelson--one of the fellows who inspired me to this career--the first time I walked into a the...

I made shrimp and grits for our church's men's group this morning. Even better was Pastor Randy's lesson on Daniel in the Lion's Den. I've loved that story since I was a boy, but Pastor Randy helped us see it in a whole new light!

Daniel's Answer to the King Briton Rivère (1890) Manchester Art Galle...

Hattie Kauffman spoke at the latest Mastermedia NYC event, and shared the story she kept buried for decades. While the Emmy-award-winning journalist was interviewing leaders of state, Olympians and astronauts she was still reeling from the pain of growing up in a family split by alcoholism. Her pa...

I just did ADR (additional digital recording) for the film Rather to Be Chosen, in which Joyce and I play the parents of the protagonist.

To celebrate one step closer to the film's release I'm posting this video we put together of the transitional shave. Just before filming in the spring I still h...