Malcolm Boyd (priest)

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Malcolm Boyd (born June 8, 1923 in Buffalo , New York , † February 27, 2015 in Los Angeles ) was an American author and Anglican priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States of America .

Life

After leaving school, Boyd initially worked in the film industry. He became president of the Television Producers Association of Hollywood . Boyd left the film industry in 1951 and studied Anglican theology . In 1955, Boyd was ordained an Anglican priest and then served for many years as a priest in Anglican parishes. In the 1960s, Boyd was nicknamed the “espresso priest” because of his religiously oriented poetry lectures at the San Francisco nightclub hungry i . Later in his life, Boyd became one of the better-known white pastors who participated in the US civil rights movement . When he 1977 be coming out had he was the most prominent openly gay theologian in the United States.

During his life, Boyd wrote over 30 books, specifically on LGBT subjects and religion . Boyd lived in Los Angeles with his partner, Mark Thompson. Boyd served on the board of directors of the White Crane Institute . The institute publishes the LGBT magazine White Crane .

Works (selection)

Boyd as an author:

  • Crisis in Communication (Doubleday, 1957)
  • Christ and Celebrity Gods (Seabury, 1958)
  • Focus: Rethinking the Meaning of Our Evangelism (Morehouse-Barlow, 1960)
  • If I Go Down to Hell (Morehouse-Barlow, 1962)
  • The Hunger, the Thirst (Morehouse-Barlow, 1964)
  • Are You Running with Me, Jesus? (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965)
  • Free to Live, Free to Die (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967)
  • Malcolm Boyd's Book of Days (Random House, 1968)
  • The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Stone and Other Fables (Harper & Row, 1969)
  • As I Live and Breathe ( Random House , 1969)
  • My Fellow Americans (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970)
  • Human Like Me, Jesus (Simon and Schuster, 1971)
  • The Lover (Word Books, 1972)
  • The Runner (Word Books, 1974)
  • The Alleluia Affair (Word Books, 1975)
  • Christian: Its Meanings in an Age of Future Shock (Hawthorn, 1975)
  • Am I Running with You, God? (Doubleday, 1977)
  • Take Off the Masks (Doubleday, 1978; revised HarperCollins 1993, White Crane Books 2008)
  • Look Back in Joy (Gay Sunshine Press, 1981; revised Alyson Books , 1990)
  • Half Laughing, Half Crying (St. Martin's Press, 1986)
  • Gay Priest: An Inner Journey (St. Martin's Press, 1986)
  • Edges, Boundaries and Connections (Broken Moon Press, 1992)
  • Rich with Years: Daily Meditations on Growing Older (HarperCollins, 1994)
  • Go Gentle Into That Good Night (Genesis Press, 1998)
  • Simple Grace: A Mentor's Guide to Growing Older (Westminster John Knox, 2001)
  • Prayers for the Later Years (Augsburg, 2002)
  • A Prophet in His Own Land: The Malcolm Boyd Reader (edited by Bo Young / Dan Vera White Crane Books , 2008)

Boyd as editor:

  • On the Battle Lines: A Manifesto for Our Times , (Morehouse-Barlow, 1964)
  • The Underground Church (Sheed & Ward, 1968)
  • When in the Course of Human Events (together with Paul Conrad, Sheed & Ward, 1973)
  • Amazing Grace: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Faith (together with Nancy L. Wilson , Crossing Press, 1991)
  • Race & Prayer: Collected Voices, Many Dreams (together with Chester Talton, Morehouse, 2003)
  • In Times Like These… How We Pray (together with J. Jon Bruno, Seabury, 2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malcolm Boyd dies at 91; Episcopal priest took prayer to the streets
  2. ↑ White Crane: Gay Eminences ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whitecranejournal.com
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Malcolm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Anglican clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2015
Place of death los Angeles