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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... religious,” or who found the church and ministry irrelevant, Coffin found a way to confront them by asking questions, even by quoting questions. I have a friend—very successful—who in the fifties toyed with the idea of becoming a ...
... religious army, he had to confront the 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 ...
... religious life , for as the story shows , pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses our understanding . Heart - searching time that it is , Lent should be painful and reward- ing , a time to be led by the Spirit into our own ...
... religious symbol , representing in its body and wings the strength which Isaiah saw that God could renew in each of us , in any time , and in any situ- ation . That is why in so many churches , our own included , this great bird holds ...
... 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 on Friday of President Reagan's latest rationalization ...