Media Background.

Malcolm Boyd was ordained to the Episcopal ministry in 1951 after abandoning a promising career as a packager of shows for radio and television, during which he had served as the first president of the Television Producers Association of America. His studies included a year at Oxford and a year at Union Theological Seminary, where he studied under Reinhold Niebuhr. As the Protestant chaplain at Colorado State College, at the end of the decade he aroused controversy when he took himself and his message into the coffeehouses in Fort Collins because, he said, that was where young people who needed religion were. He resigned and moved to Wayne State University, where he again attracted notoriety with plays about social issues which he wrote and staged. His critics charged that they were obscene. In 1965 his eighth book, a collection of prayers called Are You Running...