The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, Volume 2Westminster John Knox Press, 2008 M01 1 - 593 pages Comprising 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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... find courage and hope for your own work in these sermons , that you will see how Bill found his way , and that he may help you find yours . With all my best wishes , Randy Coffin 204 Why Christian Education ? 208 World Food Sunday 212.
... find.They are, if anything, understated and told in such a way that they display no traces of narcissism. I do not mean by that last comment to suggest that Coffin was a virtuoso at self-deprecation, modest to a fault, or someone who ...
... find many variations on this prophetic theme, which he handles with care. In a sermon preached soon after there was a poignant reference to the presence of the powerful in the case of Nelson Rockefeller, whose funeral at Riverside drew ...
... 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. Enemies are like cowards: they represent communal failures, breakdowns in sacred relationships ...
... find it.” That these words are found, with variants, in all four Gospels, a total of six times, underscores their place at the heart and center of the Christian faith.These words also describe a general truth of life that certain things ...