At once informal and literate, these prayers are also deeply personal...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.
Malcolm Boyd was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1955 after a successful career in advertising and television. Time Magazine dubbed him "the coffeehouse priest" in the sixties when he read his prayers accompanied by some of America's best-known musicians. Boyd has long served the cause of civil rights, commencing with a Freedom Ride in l96l. He has served parishes and college chaplaincies in Indianapolis, Colorado, Detroit, Washington D.C., and Santa Monica, Calif. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his life-partner of 2l years, author, editor, and therapist Mark Thompson. The author of numerous books, Boyd is now poet/writer-in-residence at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
