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Malcolm Boyd

"However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent."

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"However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent."

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"By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way."
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"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."
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"Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches."
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"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."
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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 a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends."
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"Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week."
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"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."
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Malcolm Boyd
"I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring."
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"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body."
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"Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality."
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