by Drick Boyd | Aug 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
I continue with looking Faith-based responses to gun violence. In this section I discuss the underlying causes of the gun violence issue in the United States.When one examines the causes of gun violence, one must think of the issue on at least four levels. First, we...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
During my recent sabbatical I researched and wrote a paper on Faith Based Responses to Gun Violence. In this research I studied the gun industry, the media, the NRA, the culture of guns and the way in which faith communities can and should respond. Over the next...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
“If you have come here to help me, then you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up in mine, then let us work together.”I recently attended my 40th high school reunion. I saw and talked with people I literally had...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
I was sad to hear the announcement last week about the closing of all Borders Bookstores. I can’t say that in recent years I was a major supporter of Borders; like most Americans, I tend to get my books through the various outlets available online. Yet Borders will...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
In the year 312 C.E, the Christian movement made a wrong turn from which it has never recovered. In that year the Emperor Constantine was crossing the Milvian Bridge over the Tiber River into Rome in a battle that would lead to his becoming the emperor of the Roman...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
I don’t know what possessed me. It may have been that I was alone on a Father’s Day afternoon, and I wasn’t interested in the U.S. Open. Perhaps it was because I had earned enough points at my local theater to get a free ticket, so there was no cost involved. I had...
