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Wisdom for the Ages
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“We are beginning to resemble extinct dinosaurs, who suffered from too much armor and too little brain.”
– William Sloane Coffin

The Reverend William Sloane Coffin has been called an American prophet. He became famous at Yale in the 1960s for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He was jailed as a civil rights Freedom Rider. From the pulpit to the world stage, Reverend Coffin has argued that faith must be at the heart of political and intellectual life.

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Reverend William Sloane Coffin, chaplain of Yale University ( 1957-1975), senior minister of the Riverside Church in New York City (1977-1987), president of the nuclear disarmament advocacy group SANE FREEZE (1987-1990), author of the new book “Credo”

 

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