Jon Boyd
@jonboyd.org
Associate publisher & academic editorial director at InterVarsity Press (USA)—PhD (History, Johns Hopkins)—Reader, writer, t(h)inker—Words, pages, places—Mechanical typewriting and saxophoning—Disciple, spouse, daddy, friend, Chicagoan. #resist
Scenes from the Boyd ladies’ participation in today’s #NoKings protests in Chicago. The kazoo and tambourine are their preferred instruments of joyful noise in resistance.
October 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Scenes from the Boyd ladies’ participation in today’s #NoKings protests in Chicago. The kazoo and tambourine are their preferred instruments of joyful noise in resistance.
Nothing like a really accurate clock in a train station. (Seen just now in @rtachicago.bsky.social’s Union Station.)
July 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Nothing like a really accurate clock in a train station. (Seen just now in @rtachicago.bsky.social’s Union Station.)
What we're protesting is no fun, but it's best to laugh at clowns and celebrate America with joy—so that's what @annthebrave.bsky.social and I did today (along with thousands of others filling the streets).
#NoKings #indivisible #resist
#NoKings #indivisible #resist
June 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
What we're protesting is no fun, but it's best to laugh at clowns and celebrate America with joy—so that's what @annthebrave.bsky.social and I did today (along with thousands of others filling the streets).
#NoKings #indivisible #resist
#NoKings #indivisible #resist
Easy edit for this headline.
April 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Easy edit for this headline.
Black licorice jellybeans are still my go-to fave in the Easter basket, but they have a new contender hard on their heels.
April 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Black licorice jellybeans are still my go-to fave in the Easter basket, but they have a new contender hard on their heels.
The gall of Musk's Department of Education to email asking me to feed them still more info for DOGE's datasets.
(No offense to the faithful public servants who still remain at @altdepted.bsky.social. Strength to your hands!)
(No offense to the faithful public servants who still remain at @altdepted.bsky.social. Strength to your hands!)
April 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The gall of Musk's Department of Education to email asking me to feed them still more info for DOGE's datasets.
(No offense to the faithful public servants who still remain at @altdepted.bsky.social. Strength to your hands!)
(No offense to the faithful public servants who still remain at @altdepted.bsky.social. Strength to your hands!)
My protest placard for the #50501 demonstrations today (and as long as we need them).
Written on a Dutch-language typewriter made in Germany (in 1954) — because America doesn’t need to be first if we build good friendships.
#resist #nokings #stoptrump
Written on a Dutch-language typewriter made in Germany (in 1954) — because America doesn’t need to be first if we build good friendships.
#resist #nokings #stoptrump
April 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My protest placard for the #50501 demonstrations today (and as long as we need them).
Written on a Dutch-language typewriter made in Germany (in 1954) — because America doesn’t need to be first if we build good friendships.
#resist #nokings #stoptrump
Written on a Dutch-language typewriter made in Germany (in 1954) — because America doesn’t need to be first if we build good friendships.
#resist #nokings #stoptrump
Honestly though it’s totally unfair to actual muskrats, who are adorable and ecologically important.
February 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Honestly though it’s totally unfair to actual muskrats, who are adorable and ecologically important.
A very personal thanks to the employee(s) in the U.S. Department of State who processed our daughters' passport applications—submitted during the Biden administration but received just now. Your workdays must be hell, but thanks for taking care of a couple young citizens in need.
February 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A very personal thanks to the employee(s) in the U.S. Department of State who processed our daughters' passport applications—submitted during the Biden administration but received just now. Your workdays must be hell, but thanks for taking care of a couple young citizens in need.
This is from Edmund Spenser’s sixteenth-century poem, ‘The Faerie Queene’ — or maybe it’s straight out of Ted Lasso’s mouth.
February 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is from Edmund Spenser’s sixteenth-century poem, ‘The Faerie Queene’ — or maybe it’s straight out of Ted Lasso’s mouth.
Seen in a neighborhood diner:
January 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Seen in a neighborhood diner:
“One may speak out like sword stabs,
but the tongue of the wise is healing.”
—Proverbs 12:18, trans. Robert Alter (@wwnorton.bsky.social, 2019)
but the tongue of the wise is healing.”
—Proverbs 12:18, trans. Robert Alter (@wwnorton.bsky.social, 2019)
January 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“One may speak out like sword stabs,
but the tongue of the wise is healing.”
—Proverbs 12:18, trans. Robert Alter (@wwnorton.bsky.social, 2019)
but the tongue of the wise is healing.”
—Proverbs 12:18, trans. Robert Alter (@wwnorton.bsky.social, 2019)
After an unexpected illness after Christmas, my father passed away this weekend. We grieve his loss, but celebrate his life and legacy with joy!
For those who may want to come to a celebration of his life in Evanston, Illinois, here are the details: boydsnest.org/news/2025/bi...
For those who may want to come to a celebration of his life in Evanston, Illinois, here are the details: boydsnest.org/news/2025/bi...
January 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
After an unexpected illness after Christmas, my father passed away this weekend. We grieve his loss, but celebrate his life and legacy with joy!
For those who may want to come to a celebration of his life in Evanston, Illinois, here are the details: boydsnest.org/news/2025/bi...
For those who may want to come to a celebration of his life in Evanston, Illinois, here are the details: boydsnest.org/news/2025/bi...
Not a spoiler, I promise! But one highlight for me in the new Christmas-themed Netflix movie ‘Carry-On’ is when we get to see a portable typewriter go through the machine. Could be documentary footage of me at security—except OBVIOUSLY would be in its case! 🤣
December 15, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Not a spoiler, I promise! But one highlight for me in the new Christmas-themed Netflix movie ‘Carry-On’ is when we get to see a portable typewriter go through the machine. Could be documentary footage of me at security—except OBVIOUSLY would be in its case! 🤣
I don’t care what anyone else may say: the track by Blues Traveler on ‘A Very Special Christmas 3’ (1997) is great.
December 15, 2024 at 1:21 AM
I don’t care what anyone else may say: the track by Blues Traveler on ‘A Very Special Christmas 3’ (1997) is great.
“Her heart—like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away—was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.”
―George MacDonald, “The History of Photogen and Nycteris” (1879), in ‘The Complete Fairy Tales’ (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 1999)
#relationalspirituality
―George MacDonald, “The History of Photogen and Nycteris” (1879), in ‘The Complete Fairy Tales’ (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 1999)
#relationalspirituality
December 8, 2024 at 3:08 PM
“Her heart—like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away—was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.”
―George MacDonald, “The History of Photogen and Nycteris” (1879), in ‘The Complete Fairy Tales’ (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 1999)
#relationalspirituality
―George MacDonald, “The History of Photogen and Nycteris” (1879), in ‘The Complete Fairy Tales’ (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 1999)
#relationalspirituality
An expression of George MacDonald’s I’ll be borrowing: “you’ve got a tile loose.”
November 24, 2024 at 5:55 PM
An expression of George MacDonald’s I’ll be borrowing: “you’ve got a tile loose.”
Be good. He’s watching you.
November 24, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Be good. He’s watching you.
