About

I’m Kevin Boyd, a retired Presbyterian minister with over 40 years of ordination. My career was spent serving smaller sized Presbyterian congregations where I was the only ordained staff member. That means I have been writing and preaching almost weekly for a long time.

My pastoral career has also intersected with a time spent in the political realm. I have run as a candidate in three campaigns. Twice I ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, losing one race in the primary and the second in the general election. In between those two congressional runs, I also ran an unsuccessful campaign for city council. I learned much in these three campaigns, mostly how to think about faith and politics and the way they intersect in our living. It is a very biblical idea, this idea that faith and all parts of our life are interconnected and that faith must speak in all areas of living.

This blog site a sharing of where my wrestling with this intersection of faith and living lead me to speak about what I see. You may agree. You may disagree. I am part of a denomination that understands persons of faith may have issues on which we disagree and we are both still people of faith, called to mutual forbearance. Forbearance requires self-control and tolerance.

One last word. The title of the blog, Donkey Speaks, is inspired by something in the book of Numbers where Balaam (a minor prophet in this time) is warned by his donkey not to proceed in a certain direction. The donkey is beaten and abused by Balaam, but in the end it is the donkey who proves faithful, responding to what Balaam did not see and protecting Balaam from certain calamity even though Balaam took a while to see. At one point action was not enough to get Balaam’s attention, the donkey had to speak! That’s the inspiration for the name of this blog.

I hope it will make you think, and that is why I offer it. You may agree. You may disagree. What I will try to do is share the best that I know how where my faith is guiding me through these turbulent times in which we are living.