by Drick Boyd | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured
During the last year, I have been working on a book entitled Mystic Activists in which I explore and discuss how our spiritual practices such as prayer, contemplation, worship, and the like are absolutely essential to our work for social justice, specifically racial...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured
Happy 2025! What does this new year promise for us? In an essay entitled “The Seasons of God,” African American mystic and pastor Howard Thurman quotes 17th-century French Catholic leader and theologian Francois Fenelon who wrote: “Time bears a very different aspect...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured
“The Last Time You’ll Have to Vote” On July 27 of this year, Donald Trump was the key speaker at a gathering of evangelical Christians. At one point in his speech, he urged his audience to vote in the upcoming election: “Get out and vote! Just this time. You...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 12, 2024 | Featured
In late July there was series of mega-Zoom calls following the announcement that Kamala Harris was taking Joe Biden’s place as the Democratic presidential candidate. First, 40,000 joined on a call of Black Women for Kamala Harris. A couple days later there were...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 12, 2024 | Featured
After a long hiatus from posting on this blog, I am back. While away, I have been working on a new book with the working title Antiracist Spirituality in which I discuss how using the lens of antiracism in our spiritual practices such as prayer, contemplation, bible...
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...
