Drick Boyd's Blog
Plantation Jesus – Book Review
I was asked by Englewood Books, a Christian bookseller, to review the following book for them. Below is the substance of that review.Book Review: Skot Welch, Rick Wilson, & Andi Cumbo-Floyd (2018). Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith and New Way Forward. Harrisonburg,...
Global Capitalism at War with Itself – While Migrants Languish
This week the threatened tariffs from Canada, China, and the European Union that were initiated in response to the U.S tariffs initiated by #45 have gone into effect. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is protesting, the stock markets are wavering, and at least one...
An Open Letter to Jeff Sessions
Your words and actions deny everything that lies at the heart of the Christian faith we both profess; therefore I will do my part to fight you and your inhumane policies to the last.
A Change in Paradigm for Christian Higher Ed
For over 20 years I have taught at a Christian (read "evangelical Protestant"), faith-based university. During that time, I have lived through several changes in leadership, as well as many personal and institutional ups and downs. Today, like most small private...
Thank you James Cone
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...
Oppose School Vouchers
The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee has passed SB 2 a bill that increases the prevalence of school vouchers. POWER, PCCY ( Pennsylvania Citizens for Children and Youth), Education Voters of PA, and many other education justice groups are calling for citizens...
A Moment or a Movement: A Good Friday Reflection
On Saturday, March 24 I joined an estimated 7000 people in Philadelphia and millions across the country participating in the March for Our Lives. Marching thru Old City Philadelphia and down by the Delaware River, hearing young people voice their passionate concerns,...
(Re)-Visiting Columbine
I boarded a plan to Littleton, CO just two days after 17 people were killed and many others wounded at Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when former student Nikolas Cruz opened up his semi-automatic assault AR-15. I was going to Littleton to...
The Restlessness Paradox
That awareness of inner rest prompts another thought: that this divine rest stirs in me a divine restlessness to engage the injustices and evils in the world
Behind the Lines on Health Care
Did you ever wonder who was paying for all those drug ads on TV? You guessed it: we are. They are advertising and we are subsidizing their effort to get us to buy their drug. What’s wrong with that picture?
The Circle Game
And the seasons they go round and round, and the painted ponies go up and downWe're captive on the carousel of time.We can't return we can only look behind from where we came.And go round and round and round in the circle game(“The Circle Game, Joni...
Christmas Hope
Hope is not something we wait for, but something we live into and work for.
Dear Congress – How about talking to ALL your constituents
[W]hat every CEO knows but won’t tell you is this: A tax break for their company simply means a fatter bottom line. Not jobs. Not investment. Just more money in the pockets of folks like me.”
Me Too, Too
I am sickened by such acts, and confess on behalf of my fellow men, we must do better.
Spiritual Darkness : A Personal Reflection
NOTE: As part of a series of sermons on Mental Health and the Church, I was invited to share my experiences with spiritual darkness. Here is the text of my reflection shared on November 5, 2017 at West Philadelphia FellowshipA Privileged LifeI want to begin by...