Quotes from Malcolm Boyd

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

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 particular reference to our nature.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

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 simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

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 ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

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 a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.