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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... justice , fulfilling God's commands and the hopes , too long deferred , of those whose lives were hard , endless , dirty labor ? It would have been a proper , hard- headed , courageous role for him to have assumed , IO February 20 , 1983.
... justice , not charity , is the answer to the homeless ; or you're in the UN trying to persuade the world that poverty , not scarcity , is the cause of starvation . Suppose the walls of Washington appear trumpet-proof, and the world NOT ...
... justice , but also not to protest it ? Failing to realize that compassion without confrontation is hopelessly sentimental , the crowd goes home beating their breasts , preferring guilt to responsibility . By all appearances , it is a ...
... justice and mercy and faith .... You blind guides , straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel ! ” ( Matt . 23 : 23–24 ) . This kind of irrelevant righteousness is the bane of the religious community — so concerned , for example , with ...
... justice , anymore than is ritual , no matter how beautiful . " Take away from me the noise of your songs ; to the melody of your hearts , I will not lis- ten . But let justice roll down like mighty waters , and righteousness like an ...