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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... believe and what the world regards as belief are not the same. . . . Prophets recognize that revelation always has to be worked out, that there is a progressive nature to moral judgment. So they criticize what is, in terms of what ought ...
... believe in God all right, and Jesus and the Christian life, but somehow the church and its ministry seem a bit irrelevant, not part of the 'big show'” as he put it. He wanted himself to be part of the big show. Finally Dr. Niebuhr said ...
... believe the world is sus- tained by a kind of international solidarity of people who are ashamed of what their governments are doing . Shame is not only a deeply reli- gious but an intensely patriotic emotion , reflecting the ...
... believe the world is rational, and all of us want to think it fair. But whoever said the world was either rational or fair? Think of all the undeserved good in the lives of all of us! Those who are fighting for peace or for human rights ...
... believe that God's love doesn't seek value , it creates it . Rather than try to achieve their worth , they receive it as a gift . Rather than try to prove themselves , they seek only to express themselves . You can recognize these few ...