Derryck received his M.A. in Theological Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary and is currently a full-time doctoral student studying theology and ministry at Azusa Pacific University. He enjoys reading, studying and discussing the intersection of religion (theology and faith), culture and politics and how religious worldviews informs and influences cultural and political worldviews and also how the political and cultural worldviews influences religious worldviews. Derryck is also a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network, an initiative sponsored and promoted by the National Center For Public Policy Research, a conservative, Washington, D.C. think tank.