by Drick Boyd | Oct 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Description: While President Trump is using his Border Wall and the Caravan of Migrants coming through Mexico as political talking points, the Caravan and the Wall represent a reality of poverty and suffering we can not and dare not ignore. President Trump has sought...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
I am writing this on the Wednesday that the FBI is supposedly going to supply the US Senate with the results of its investigation on the charges of sexual abuse made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. So, I write this without knowledge of the...
by Drick Boyd | Sep 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
In 2000 Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann published a series of essays under the title Deep Memory, Exuberant Hope. In one of those essays he suggests that the North American church iis experiencing a sense of dislocation in our increasingly post-Christian...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Recent events in the Special Counsel investigation, reactions coming out of the White House and continual denials of any wrong doing have brought to mind something 17th century British clergyman John Bunyan called “the Slough of Despond.” In 1678 John Bunyan...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
In this blog entry I share thoughts have been brewing in me for a while. There are some harsh words I have to say about the atrocities in our nation’s history that too often are glossed over or completely ignored. While in the end I come out on the side of hope for...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 19, 2018 | Featured, Uncategorized
Could WE be the Problem? The recent series of gaffes, insults and “mis-statements” by President Trump have brought another round of calls for action by Democrats, and muted criticisms coupled with deliberate inaction by embarrassed Republicans. Talk shows from Fox...