American Decades
Are You Running with Me, Jesus?
Essay, Prayers
By: Malcolm Boyd
Date: 1965
Source: Boyd, Malcolm. Are You Running with Me, Jesus? New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965, 3–8, 11–15.
About the Author: Malcolm Boyd (1923–) was born in New York City. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Arizona in 1944 and a bachelor's of divinity degree at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1954. After ordination as an Episcopal priest in 1955, he served in ministerial capacities at several churches and in chaplain positions across the country. A social activist, he has written or edited over thirty books on religion and social issues.
Introduction
In the 1960s, Reverend Malcolm Boyd found that some church members, as well as others who were in contact with him in his ministerial role, were telling him that praying in the traditional Christian manner was not a personally...
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1960's Religion Primary Sources
- Braunfeld v. Brown
- "Atheism"
- Pacem in Terris
- The Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama
- "Eulogy for the Martyred Children"
- Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World)
- Are You Running with Me, Jesus?
- What's the Difference? A Comparison of the Faiths Men Live By
- The Secular City
- World Aflame
- Humanae Vitae: Encyclical of Pope Paul VI on the Regulation of Birth
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
