Drick Boyd's Blog
The Day God Checked Out
When we are challenged we do not rise to our expectations. We fall to our level of practice. Archilocus God checked out the other day. No one knows exactly where She went or when, but as far as anyone knows God is gone. Nowhere to be found. Some folks said God had...
Combatting Intentional Ignorance with the Truth
There are powerful forces at work whose goal is to obfuscate the truth.
Freedom Isn’t Free
I don’t expect the protestors to appreciate my words, but I do wish the media would stop giving them the attention they don’t deserve.
Books That Shaped my Life (#12) – Starting All Over Again: Hints of Jesus in the City (by John Vincent)
Note: I continue my series on books shaped my life, while sheltering in place due to COVID-19. I share the story of a man who showed me where to find Jesus. I also offer a mediation for this time when we are contending with the COVID-19 pandemic. Arriving in Jersey...
COVID-19 and Climate Change
The COVID-19 pandemic warns us of the greater challenge of dealing with climate change.
The Search for Common Ground in the Prophets Dream
`On Monday, March 2, 2020, Dr. Mary Wade and I made a presentation at Pendle Hill, a Quaker retreat and study center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. Our topic was "The Search for Common Ground" taken from the title of Howard...
Get Over it; It’s called Democracy
Iowa is getting a bad rap. They held their caucuses and they tried to upgrade using an app and it failed them. Sounds like some of the apps I tried, found wanting, and deleted. In the wake of the confusion many leaders in the Democratic party and the media are calling...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Books That Shaped My Life #11)
Note: After a several month hiatus, I am renewing this series on important books that have impacted me. A Slow Impact Probably more than any other book in this series, no book has redirected the course of my life like Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and no author has...
Dear Evangelicals— You are not the only Christians
The Christianity Today controversy On December 19, 2019 Christianity Today editor Mark Galli dropped a bombshell when he called for President Trump to be removed from office for his attempts to bribe the president of Ukraine by withholding funds passed by Congress. ...
Hope is an Active Verb
The beginning of a new year is usually a time when people make resolutions and plans for the year ahead. The turning of the calendar can give one a sense of new beginning, new opportunities, new hopes. I am one such person. I am actually one of those people who not...
The Paradox of Tragedy
Two Tragedies Over the past few weeks I have experienced two (what for me were) tragedies. In neither case was I directly affected and yet because of my relationships with the people who were affected, I have been deeply impacted by...
A New Low & A Creative Comeback
Hardly a day goes by when something #45 Tweets or says does not make me cringe. But this week he sank to a new low when he mocked Time’s Person of the Year Greta Thunberg. Like a petulant, jealous middle schooler Trump tweeted “So ridiculous, Greta must work on her...
Telling it Like it is
What’s Gone on Recently What do we do with a President who seems bent on destruction – his own and the nation he supposedly leads. Why do I say this? He has repeatedly called out four democratic congresswomen and tells them to “go back to where they came from.” All of...
Why America Needs Racism and Poverty (Books That Shaped My Life #10)
One cold January morning in 1979 or 1980, during a Jan-term at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS), I walked into a classroom and was greeted by a tall, lanky, African-American man in his late 50’s. During that month I was taking a course on racism with Dr....
Passages (Books That Shaped My Life #9)
In the mid-1970s when I was living in Boston, an exciting new bookstore opened in the downtown area. Up until that point bookstores tended to be small and focused on certain genres. In order to get the book you wanted you needed to know what store to go to. But that...