by Drick Boyd | Oct 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Resignation of Jon Gruden On Monday, October 11, Jon Gruden resigned from his position as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders in the NFL (National Football League) after the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times revealed emails in which Gruden repeatedly made...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
In his collection of meditations, Deep is the Hunger, Howard Thurman asks this question: “Is this a world with moral meaning at the center?” He goes on to say that this is not a question that can be answered with empirical research or an accumulation of data....
by Drick Boyd | Sep 13, 2021 | Featured, Uncategorized
The Womb Not The Tomb On New Year’s Eve 2016 Rev. William Barber, co-founder of the Poor People’s Campaign, sponsored an interfaith Watchnight New Year’s Eve at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. For many gathered that evening, there was a somber and sober...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I will yield all the hard places of my heart to the softening influence of the Spirit of God.” Howard Thurman To all of you who have refused to be vaccinated, this is my plea. As I watch the infection rates, hospitalization rates and death rates rise again, it seems...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
A recent editorial cartoon of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has the heading “Crime under the ‘Watchful’ eye of Larry Krasner” and shows him blaming crime, COVID, the court system, police and the Philadelphia Flyers defense for the rise in crime,...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured, Uncategorized
The Challenge of Empathy In my recently released book Disrupting Whiteness: Talking with White People About Racism, I propose that the best way to engage white folks in conversations about racism is to take a dialogical rather than a confrontative approach. Too often...
