RichDrama - Blog #Evangelical QuakersRichDrama - Blog #Evangelical Quakershttps://www.richdrama.com/blog/tag/Evangelical-QuakersTue, 07 Apr 2026 03:09:32 -0700http://zoho.com/sites/<![CDATA[Phillip and the Ethiopian]]>https://www.richdrama.com/blog/post/phillip-and-ethiopian
I was visiting Medford Friends Church (Evangelical Friends Church International), where I attended from third grade until I went off to George Fox University (then College). The current pastor, Jesse Davis, saw me perform when he was in junior high.

I was deeply moved by Jesse's sermon on Phillip and the Ethiopian ( Acts 8:26-40), a scene I portray in my one-man play The Acts. You can hear the sermon here, along with what I shared during Quaker worship, which I explain in the introduction.


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A Clear Leading tells the story of Quaker abolitionist John Woolman, who spoke against slavery a century before our Civil War.
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I got to perform my play about Quaker abolitionist John Woolman at Youth Quake at Lake Junaluska, NC, early in 1998. I'm posting it in the year it happened with reflections 20 years later. It was at that performance that Dale Savidge decided he'd represent me, so it's cool to realize he's been representing me for two decades!

The performance was mentioned in the Friends Journal...

Rich Swingle's one-person play, A Clear Leading (later titled I Dreamed I Was Free), on the life of John Woolman, was inspirational; we saw the struggles, the mistakes, and the slow but deep clarity that formed Woolman's famous leading. 
--Claudia Wair
Friends Journal
April 1998



I Dreamed I Was Free tells the story of Quaker abolitionist John Woolman, who spoke against slavery a century before our Civil War.

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