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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... thought on Valentine Day It is my hope that you will 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 ...
... thought we thought that anything he did put him in a “quasi-martyrial” situation.The label “martyr” applies to St. Stephen, or Steve Biko in South Africa or Die- trich Bonhoeffer in Germany, or some murdered civil rights workers in the ...
... thought . It was an academic , not a personal question . So , not surprisingly , we read , “ And they said ” presumably all the disci- ples " Some say John the Baptist , others say Elijah , and others Jere- miah or one of the prophets ...
... thought for the parson . They are there on Palm Sunday not to march , of course , but to try in any way possible to prevent their ideas of law and order from being pounded into dust altogether . The Pharisees think they have a heretic ...
... thought, and more resistant to change than we had anticipated. So what do we do—abandon our ambition? No, we abandon our ideal- ism and hang on to our ambition, thereby making one of the greatest mistakes of our lives. So the Church ...