by Drick Boyd | May 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Recently, at the urging of my daughter I watched the movie Jesus Camp, a 2006 documentary film which follows the lives of several children in fundamentalist, Pentecostal families, and a charismatic children’s pastor named Becky Fisher. The film takes its name from a...
by Drick Boyd | May 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
Educational justice has been at the heart of my work over the last 13 years.In 1997 I left pastoral ministry and turned my interests and talents to education. While I was working in higher education, I did not teach the typical 18-22 year old college student; instead...
by Drick Boyd | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
Note: The following letter was sent to both candidates and the Philadelphia Inquirer. For those outside Pennsylvania, Joe Sestak (Democrat)and Pat Toomey (Republican) won their respective primaries and will face off in the November’s election for the U.S. Senate...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Two recent events have gotten me thinking about the soul of our country. While I have never been accused of being a patriot, I do value the ideals of “liberty and justice for all” at the heart of the pledge of allegiance. Every time I go to the National Constitution...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today, (April 2) is Good Friday. For me Good Friday has always been the most significant point in the Lenten-Holy Week-Easter drama. I remember as a college freshman sitting alone in the Duke University chapel on Good Friday, and feeling like the world was going on as...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
One of the serendipities of the courses I teach is that often the news is filled with real life examples of the theories and concepts we discuss in class. Such has been the case this spring in my Leadership Development course. We have been studying the process of...
