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Malcolm Boyd
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Autobiographical Notes How can I explain who I am? For starters, these are some of my favorite things: Walking and hiking in the hills and along a beach…The sound of rain on the roof…Reading biography…People one at a time instead of in a large group…BLT-with-avocado sandwiches…Curling up with my new issue of Opera News…great old movies from the thirties and forties like “Grand Hotel” and “Dinner at Eight”…Iris Murdoch’s novels…sitting in front of a fireplace on a cold day, preferably in the company of a Golden Lab…watering the fuchsia or finding a new hibiscus blossom in the garden. Although I seem to have experienced several different lives, it’s frustrating when people identify me solely with just one. What are the major events that have shaped my life? Winning an essay contest in high school in Denver in l938. This began my career as a writer. Coming to Hollywood in the forties where I became a production partner of Mary Pickford and served as president of the Television Producers Association of Hollywood. Then, in l95l, leaving Hollywood, entering a seminary, and preparing for the Episcopal priesthood. Writing a small book of
prayers in l965—“Are You Running with Me, Jesus?”—that astonishingly
became a national bestseller and led the way to my writing a number of
other books, all of whom I love as my children. Coming out as a gay man in l977 and later meeting my life partner of many years, Mark Thompson, with whom I share our home in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. Receiving an invitation to
be poet/writer-in-residence at the Cathedral Center of Los Angeles in
l996, bringing me into a creative and faith-centered community of
remarkable women and men who have become my good friends. Now I look forward to
eighty, coming up rapidly. I am enormously grateful. |
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Running with Jesus The Prayers of Malcolm Boyd ISBN: 0806640685 Publisher: Augsburg Books Publication Date: 08/16/2000 Format: paperback, 5.25" x 7.25", 118 pages |
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"The prayers are deeply
personal, though their subjects range from civil rights to unwanted
pregnancy to poverty...Their eloquence comes from the personal struggle
they contain--a struggle to believe, to keep going, a spiritual contest
that is agonized, courageous and not always won." The New York Times "Raw, naked, in the best sense 'vulgar,' these prayers knit together what we call the 'sacred' and the 'secular' in a marvelous way." The Living Church "Like Jacob, the Rev. Malcolm Boyd is one who wrestles with God. In his new self-revelatory book, he questions, challenges and, above all, opens himself to listening." The Los Angeles Times |
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Simple Grace A Mentor's Guide to Growing Older Foreword by Martin E. Marty
Author: Malcolm Boyd |
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"It is hard to think of any spiritual leader
more at home than Malcolm Boyd in the depths and the heights, on the
fringes, and at the center of the world of America today." R.W.B.
Lewis, Pulitzer Prize-winner author of "Edith Wharton: A Biography" and
professor emeritus at Yale University "Easy to read, surprisingly thought provoking. Mentor-like, it does not tell us what to do, but encourages us to do our own work better." Episcopal Life |
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Focus Rethinking the Meaning of Our Evangelism Episcopal Classic Series Foreword by Frederick H. Borsch
Author: Malcolm Boyd |
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| A reprint of a timeless, prophetic, and historically significant book. A stirring call to evangelism, with concrete and specific suggestions for growing ourselves as well as the church. | ||||
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Malcolm Boyd's
current titles are available from the
Cathedral Bookstore.
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"Malcolm Boyd really can write a prayer -- he
is to prayer what Shakespeare is to the sonnet." Frank Deford, NPR commentator and an editor of Sports Illustrated. "Boyd's book offers the wisdom of a life prayed through many seasons. His example shows us how to pray our own lives, and inspires courage to make fresh choices." Marilyn McCord Adams, Yale Divinity School |
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