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...
by Drick Boyd | Apr 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Recently, I read two chapters from Marcus Borg’s book, Jesus and was particularly interested in his discussion of the two paradigms of contemporary Christianity: the belief-centered and the emerging paradigms. I don’t read Marcus Borg often but when I do I find...
