by Drick Boyd | Jul 12, 2024 | Featured
After a long hiatus from posting on this blog, I am back. While away, I have been working on a new book with the working title Antiracist Spirituality in which I discuss how using the lens of antiracism in our spiritual practices such as prayer, contemplation, bible...
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 7, 2023 | Featured
Jesus Among the Disinherited In my previous blog I reflected on Howard Thurman’s depiction of Jesus in his book Jesus and the Disinherited. Based on Thurman’s understanding, I said Jesus was not a charismatic outsider coming to “rescue” the poor, but rather was one...
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 | May 10, 2023 | Featured
In my introduction to this series on “Antiracism as Spiritual Formation” I shared a definition of spiritual formation offered by Dr. Robert Mulholland in his book Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation. In the preface to that book Mulholland...
