by Drick Boyd | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured
In this posting, we continue our discussion of antiracism as spiritual formation by looking at the way the Christian faith, as it is often conceived and practiced, has been shaped and distorted by systemic and historic racism. Howard Thurman in India In 1935 when he...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
For the past several years on or around the Fourth of July, I have made a practice of re-reading portions of Frederick Douglass’ famous July 5, 1852 speech in Rochester, NY entitled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Speaking at the height of a...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
On July 4, 1852, eleven years before the Emancipation Proclamation and 13 years before the abolition of slavery, Frederick Douglass, a former slave and leading abolitionist was invited to deliver an address in 1852. The ironic power of Douglass’ words still ring true,...
by Drick Boyd | Oct 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Like many of you I have been watching, reading and listening to the news about the Occupy Wall Street movement that is sweeping the country and indeed the world. Despite the attempts of critics to characterize the “occupiers” as leftist radicals, at least in the...
