by Drick Boyd | May 7, 2025 | Featured
On Friday, April 25, my friend and colleague James Kirylo and I made a presentation at the American Education Research Association (AERA) annual conference in Denver, Colorado. Our goal was to draw a parallel between the circumstances that led to Paulo Freire being...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 19, 2025 | Featured
Saved by God for a Purpose? On March 4 President Trump delivered his annual “State of Union” speech to Congress in which he highlighted all the things he had already done since taking office on January 20: the DOGE cuts, instituting tariffs, his interest in gaining...
by Drick Boyd | Feb 20, 2025 | Featured
Rufus Jones, a Quaker mystic and philosopher, tells the story of being on a boat trip in the midst a thick fog. He writes: The range of visibility was extremely short. The ship crept along cautiously, feeling its way and sounding the foghorn at frequent intervals. The...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured
Last Saturday, January 25, I had the honor of attending the Celebration of Life for Dr. Tony Campolo. Tony died two months earlier on November 19, 2024, and the family had its own private funeral. This event, officiated by Tony’s son Bart Campolo, was for the...
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...
