The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, Volume 2Comprising the sermons preached by William Sloane Coffin while he was senior minister at the prestigious Riverside Church in New York City,The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Yearscaptures the renowned preacher and social activist at work: ministering to American hostages in Iran, supporting AIDS awareness, and rallying his audiences to battle poverty and nuclear proliferation--all the while celebrating marriages, baptisms, and Mother's Days and mourning the loss of loved ones, including his own son. In each of these brilliant and painstakingly crafted sermons, Coffin combined his deep love of Scripture and passionate commitment to peace and justice with his unparalleled gift for the spoken word. While also revealing the personal and pastoral dimensions of his ministry, each sermon provides a powerful example of Coffin's well-accomplished mission: to challenge the conscience of a nation. |
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... Bible are © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, 1961, 1970. Used by permission. Scripture quotations from The Holy Bible, New International Version are copyright © 1973, 1978 ...
... biblical texts ; learn what Coffin did with a text and how he did it ; and pick up a line full of insight here and there . But they soon dis- covered that they could not simply reproduce and then preach his ser- mons effectively . I am ...
... biblical terms, “the Truth.” Lest the reference to the suburban pastor is taken as a slap against preachers who enjoy appar- ent security, let me say that it does not exclude the witness of those who are not at the edge of the zone ...
... biblical-sounding Christian veneer to their preaching and preachments. William Sloane Coffin was sup- posed to be ... Bible.” Today I suppose Barth would have to urge preachers to google inter- net signals in order to know what is ...
... Bible . He could preach some landmark sermons , one of which we will sample : The occasion was Martin Luther King Jr.'s fiftieth birthday . Coffin used the occasion to celebrate King's ability to shake things up in general . Even as ...