Reverend Malcolm Boyd Quotes

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• Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and…
• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
• I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
• I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've…
• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without…
• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
• Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of…
• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
• I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
• I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.
• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
• Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
• Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not…

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