Are You Running with Me, Jesus?, Hardcover

In the middle of the turbulent 1960s Malcolm Boyd's Are You Running With Me, Jesus? appeared on the scene and broke the mold from which devotional texts had previously been made. Boyd's prayers engaged traditional Christian themes with a decidedly contemporary voice--honest, direct, insightful--while at the same time taking on issues of everyday concern: personal freedom, racial justice, sexuality. Billed by its original publisher as a collection of "prayers for all of us today who are finding it harder and harder to pray," this landmark book has influenced generations of Christians and seekers. This fortieth anniversary edition promises to celebrate its impact and make it available to further generations.

About the Author:

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.