by Drick Boyd | Jan 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Early on the morning of Saturday, January 27th, four of us (Cynthia, Phoebe & Drick Boyd, and Laura Rosenberger) loaded into our car for Washington, DC to join nearly 100,000 like-minded folks on the National Mall in front of the Capitol Building. Our purpose was...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
I have been a committed pacifist for much of my adult life. Recently, I have come to realize that peacemaking is not only about opposing war; it also involves conceiving of life in a different way. In this quest for peacemaking at a deeper level, I have looked to the...
by Drick Boyd | Dec 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
This past year the word “hope” has taken on a more significant meaning for me, largely due to my ongoing study of the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire. Freire dedicated his life to serving the illiterate poor of the world. His methods not only taught illiterate...
by Drick Boyd | Nov 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
This coming weekend, is Veteran’s Day weekend, a time when the country honors the veterans who have served in the military and fought in our country’s wars. When I was a Baptist pastor, I could never get past this weekend without having someone in the congregation...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
Over the last couple of weeks the media has highlighted the response of the Amish community to a crazed gunman who brutally murdered six innocent school girls. Admittedly, there is something unbalanced about the amount of coverage of this murder has received when in...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 31, 2006 | Uncategorized
This week I have felt inundated by the TV, radio and newspaper reports commemorating the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Like many people outside of the directly affected areas, I did not realize until several days after the hurricane hit the...
