Are you running with me, Jesus?
Malcolm Boyd (Signed)
Cover Photograph by Robert L. Frank


Description: New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965 / 1966, First Edition, Stated Eighth Printing. Original blue-gray textured cloth with titling on white to the spine in a pictorial Dust Jacket now protected with a clear archival sleeve. Hand signed in ink "to Jimmy" by Malcolm Boyd on the first free endpaper. 

“‘Are You Running With Me, Jesus?’ is a classic of spiritual writing for its generation,” said the Rev. Robert Raines, a former director of the Kirkridge Retreat Center in Bangor, Pa. “It tells about the underbelly of society, which Malcolm knew something about. His was a Christian faith lived out in bars and on the streets. His prayers came out of the realization that God is not only in church. God is in the painful situations of your life,” Raines said in a 2004 interview with The Times.

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. . . . A very moving book.
— Eliot Fremont-Smith; The New York Times

The prayers are very personal, very modern, sometimes poetic. They talk about sex and the bomb and civil rights and the movies and all the things that bug Malcolm Boyd and the alienated generation that has adopted him as its spokesman.
— The Review of Higher Education

Condition: Fine clean, tight and bright textured cloth hardcover in a Very Good price-clipped Dust Jacket with short tears and chipping to the edges. Overall in nice condition, clearly well-maintained by a concerned collector. 

Additional Information: Malcolm Boyd (1923 - 2015)  was an American Episcopal priest and author. He was active in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the Freedom Riders in 1961 and as a minister. Boyd was also active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. 

In 1977 Boyd "came out", revealing that he was homosexual and becoming a spokesman for gay rights. He was one of the first prominent American clergymen to publicly acknowledge his homosexuality. In the 1980s, Boyd met Mark Thompson, an author, journalist and activist. Boyd and Thompson were domestic partners for almost 30 years and were married in 2013. Boyd considered his partnership and marriage to Thompson to be one of the most fulfilling aspects of his life.



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