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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... evil as if it were something that arose totally outside of yourself.” In other words, it takes a sinner to catch a sinner. If the Soviets have intervened monstrously in the internal affairs of oth- ers, so, Lord knows, have we. If they ...
... evil act is no barrier to a continuing relationship . Forgiveness to Christians means to outlive , out - love , out - pray , out - suffer , and out - die everyone else in this world , as did our beloved Lord and Savior . As we begin ...
... evil . The devil is imaginatively portrayed as a person because evil is experienced as an intensely personal power . Its seductions are personally persuasive . Moreover , while evil certainly arises within us , still it is experienced ...
... evil. “In the world you have tribula- tion”—I believe those words of Christ. So I keep my own expectations very low, which is why I have a lot of gravy in my life. But I also never forget what we've just sung, “Through many dan- gers ...
... evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction,” observed Pascal. And “know thyself” applies equally to nations, who are all too prone to do evil cheerfully in the name of national security. After reading ...