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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... questions that dealt with the quest for effective preaching . Coffin would have breezed through such a test . But the eleventh question was elusive and plaguing . We were to read other people's sermons and ask , “ Does this preacher ...
... questions, even by quoting questions. I have a friend—very successful—who in the fifties toyed with the idea of becoming a minister.When he came to see me at Yale Divinity School I introduced him to my teacher, Richard Niebuhr ...
... question of what to do with a man who was found with a wound in his back.The answer was, find his comrades and drill them out of the army and out of the Church.Why? Because cowardice is more a communal than an individual failing ...
... question ! ) And would we be so defensive were there not so much that has yet to be forgiven ? Whatever is worthy of censure is , at another level , deserving of compassion . People who are full of hatred are only demonstrating their ...
... question . Originally designed to protect controversial ideas , tenure now protects uncontroversial pro- fessors . But they are not the only noncontroversial people . On that now - famous 60 Minutes show , the National Council of ...