The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin, Volume Two: The Riverside Years

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Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2008 M07 16 - 593 pages
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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 Years captures 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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Page 42
At the end of the twelfth chapter of Matthew we read , “ While he was still
speaking to the people , behold , his mother and his brothers stood outside
asking to speak to him . But he replied to the man who told him , ' Who is my
mother ?
Page 43
In other words , God could not be everywhere , and therefore he made mothers ,
yes — but simply having children ... to set a man against his father , a daughter
against her mother , and a daughter - in - law against her mother - in - law ” ( Matt
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Page 405
I think that's the way a lot of us feel as we recall the beauty in what Alice Walker
calls the “ so nearly undefeated faces ” of our mothers , so many of whom we see
today only in vivid memory . Nor should we overlook the old Jewish proverb ...

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Contents

Loving Your Enemy
6
Not SelfControl but SelfSurrender
14
Whiners or Fighters?
21
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

William Sloane Coffin served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, was senior minister of Riverside Church, and is President Emeritus of SANE/FREEZE: Campaign for Global Security. He became famous while at Yale in the 1960s for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was jailed as a civil rights Freedom Rider, indicted by the U.S. government in the Benjamin Spock conspiracy trial, and has been immortalized as Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. Both Union Theological Seminary in New York and Yale University have established scholarships in his honor.Included in his works are Credo and A Passion for the Possible, both available from WJK.

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TitleThe Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin, Volume Two: The Riverside Years
Volume 2 of The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years, William Sloane Coffin, ISBN 0664233007, 9780664233006
AuthorWilliam Sloane Coffin
Editionillustrated
PublisherPresbyterian Publishing Corporation, 2008
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized15 Jul 2009
ISBN066423299X, 9780664232993
Length593 pages
  
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