by Drick Boyd | Dec 13, 2023 | Featured
Like many people, I have been horrified by the death and destruction caused by the war between Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). The attack by Hamas on October 7, which killed 1200 innocent people, the vast majority of whom were Jewish, and the capture and...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 13, 2023 | Featured
A Post 9/11 Insight In October 2001, approximately six weeks after the tragic bombings of the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and United Flight 93 over rural Pennsylvania, I gathered with about 100 educators at a conference in Austin, TX. The original goals of the...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 28, 2023 | Featured
Introduction in the last several blog entries I have been outlining the nature and process of systemic racism. I have sought to make clear that systemic racism is different than what most people think of as racism. We tend to think of racism as a discriminatory or...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 15, 2023 | Featured
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then You will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —- God’s good, pleasing and perfect will.” The Apostle Paul Letter to the Romans 12.2 ...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured
In this posting, we continue our discussion of antiracism as spiritual formation by looking at the way the Christian faith, as it is often conceived and practiced, has been shaped and distorted by systemic and historic racism. Howard Thurman in India In 1935 when he...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured
Jesus Among the Disinherited In my previous blog I reflected on Howard Thurman’s depiction of Jesus in his book Jesus and the Disinherited. Based on Thurman’s understanding, I said Jesus was not a charismatic outsider coming to “rescue” the poor, but rather was one...
