by Drick Boyd | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured
The Last Two Weeks As I write this, it has been two weeks since George Floyd was choked to death by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin; two weeks since Chauvin’s partners quietly looked on as he held Floyd down with his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46...
by Drick Boyd | May 29, 2020 | Featured
Three Dates, Three Incidents, Three Deaths On February 23 of this year at about 1 pm, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American man was jogging through a neighborhood in Brunswick, GA. Two white man, seeing him run by, chased,shot, and killed him. The two white...
by Drick Boyd | May 12, 2020 | Featured
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...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 25, 2020 | Featured
Why Don’t We Know? Once a black student in one of my courses asked: Why is it so hard for people in America to acknowledge that the country was, in fact, built on slavery with white supremacist ideas? We were talking about mass incarceration of African Americans in...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 21, 2020 | Featured
I am angry – in fact I am enraged. No, let me be honest – I am mad as hell. So I am going to vent a bit. Like many people I have had been doing what I can to contribute to flattening the curve and helping us as a community overcome this COVID-19 pandemic. For that...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 29, 2020 | Featured
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...
