Lived sermon.(appreciating William Sloane Coffin Jr.)(Brief article)

The Christian Century | July 25, 2006 | Copyright

LIVED SERMON: In a tribute to William Sloane Coffin Jr., who died in April, Lewis H. Lapham recalls how the playwright Arthur Miller once said of Coffin that if you know him long enough you can almost become a Christian. "The sermon that was his life," was the way James Carroll spoke of Coffin's legacy in a eulogy at the memorial service. Lapham quotes freely from Coffin, a great creator of aphorisms: "Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and then defends them in the name of ...

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