The Collected Sermons of William Sloan Coffin, The Riverside Years Volume 1

Name: The Collected Sermons of William Sloan Coffin, The Riverside Years Volume 1
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ISBN: 9780664232443

By: William Sloan Coffin

Westminster John Knox Press / 2008 / Hardcover

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The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin embrace his work as a social activist who supported such things as AIDS awareness, nuclear disarmament, poverty awareness, and other progressive ideas. Contains the sermons preached from 1977 to 1982.

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Title: The Collected Sermons of William Sloan Coffin, The Riverside Years Volume 1
By: William Sloan Coffin
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 616
Vendor: Westminster John Knox Press

Publication Date: 2008
Weight: 2 pounds 4 ounces
ISBN: 0664232442
ISBN-13: 9780664232443
Stock No: WW232443

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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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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.