by Drick Boyd | Jan 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
On the Saturday before Christmas, Bryan Miller and I attended the Philadelphia Gun Show in Oaks, PA. Bryan is the executive director of Heeding God’s Call (HGC), a faith-based organization dedicated to gun violence prevention. A major focus of HGC’s work...
by Drick Boyd | Jul 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Three years ago on a sabbatical, I spent some time studying the gun culture. I read a few books by sociologists who had interviewed gun enthusiasts and spent a fair amount of time on the websites of organizations like the NRA and the Gun Owners of...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Today we learned of another mass shooting, this time on the campus of Seattle Pacific University, a small private Christian university outside Seattle. Two weeks ago the same sort of event happened at University of California Santa Barbara. Last night and every night...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
On Good Friday for the last five years I have attended an ecumenical service/witness against gun violence sponsored by the interfaith gun violence prevention organization Heeding God’s Call. Five years ago, along with 11 others, I participated in...
by Drick Boyd | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
On a cold January afternoon four and a half years ago, I was arrested along with seven others for sitting down and blocking the entrance to Colisimo’s Gun Store on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia. Over the course of two days twelve people in all were arrested for...
