Episcopalians: Beyond the New Orthodoxy

The Rev. Malcolm Boyd used to be an adman and TV producer; now he is a San Francisco nightclub entertainer.

In-between times he is also an Episcopal priest who has some highly unorthodox notions about how religion ought to be presented to the modern world. Last week Father Boyd was making like a Mort Sahl or a Lenny Bruce and pulling down $1,000 a week in San Francisco's dark and smoky hungry i. Sitting on a bar stool, his clerical collar shining in the spotlight, he is putting on a four-week act that includes...

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