by Drick Boyd | Apr 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
On April 28, 2018 Dr. James Cone passed away at the age of 81. While I only met him once very briefly, his writings have deeply influenced my theological thinking. In 1975 as a senior in college at Duke University I took a course called “Black Religion.” At that time...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 9, 2026 | Featured
Dear Friends – I am glad to announce that my most recent book, Mystic Activism: Spiritual Practices for Racial Justice, has been published by Cascade Books, a subsidiary of Wipf and Stock Publishers in Eugene, Oregon. In the book’s introduction, I state that...
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...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 20, 2019 | Featured
Jamaica Plain In May 1975 after I graduated from Duke University, I packed up my 1968 Ford Mustang and headed north from Durham, NC to Boston, MA. I had gotten a summer job with a national Christian organization called Young Life. My job was to research the...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 9, 2018 | Featured
During this year (2018) many have noted two events that occurred 50 years ago (in 1968) that continue to have an impact on the lives of people around the world; I am one of those so-impacted. Even though I was alive at the time, it was not until many years later that...
