by Drick Boyd | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured
Happy 2025! What does this new year promise for us? In an essay entitled “The Seasons of God,” African American mystic and pastor Howard Thurman quotes 17th-century French Catholic leader and theologian Francois Fenelon who wrote: “Time bears a very different aspect...
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 | May 18, 2023 | Featured
Several years ago my good friend Mary Wade introduced me to the writings of Howard Thurman. Mary is an expert on Dr. Howard Thurman, having earned her PhD (1) after a long career with the American Friends Service Committee as well as serving as a Baptist pastor. Now...
by Drick Boyd | Mar 3, 2020 | Featured
`On Monday, March 2, 2020, Dr. Mary Wade and I made a presentation at Pendle Hill, a Quaker retreat and study center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania in the western suburbs of Philadelphia. Our topic was “The Search for Common Ground” taken from the title of...
by Drick Boyd | Nov 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Like many people I have been pondering the meaning of Tuesday’s election results. It so happened that during the final stages of this election season, I was reading Howard Thurman’s The Luminous Darkness: A Personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the...
