By William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin bargains right here a robust antidote to the politics of the spiritual correct with a clarion name to passive intellectuals and dispirited liberals to reenter the fray with an unabashedly Christian view of social justice. Refusing to cede the battlefield of morality to conservatives, he argues that “compassion calls for confrontation,” as he considers such issues as homophobia, range, nuclear guns, and civil discourse.
Coffin turned well-known whereas chaplain at Yale within the Nineteen Sixties for his lively competition to the Vietnam warfare. Jailed as a civil rights “Freedom Rider,” indicted via the govt within the Benjamin Spock conspiracy trial, he attained well known immortality as Reverend Sloan within the Doonesbury caricature. The seven items accrued listed below are peppered with memorable aphorisms and pithy, political one-liners intended to show bitterness to anger and anger to motion.
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The writers of Genesis say that God created light on the first day; not until the fourth day did God create the Coffin_HEART (pa) text:coffin text TYPE 11/24/10 3:42 PM Page 43 The Authority of the Bible sun. We now know that the sun makes daylight and its absence the night. While conceding that point, many fundamentalists still cling to creationism as if biblical authors who did not know that the sun makes day should be more knowledgeable about less obvious issues of science. Religious fundamentalists sacrifice intellect, emotion, and the honesty of both to the safety of their literalist creed.
And doesn’t love demand the utmost in clearsightedness? ” In other words, it is a signpost not a hitching post. ” It is a mistake to look to the Bible to close a discussion; the Bible seeks to open one. God leads with a light rein, giving us our head. Jesus spoke in parables because these stories have a way of shifting responsibility from the narrator to the hearer. Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word—to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us.
Coffin_HEART (pa) text:coffin text TYPE 11/24/10 3:42 PM Page 48 The Heart Is a Little to the Left him on other grounds, would love to tell of him around a good campfire. Likewise, if Jesus never walked on the Sea of Galilee, he is still to Christians their Messiah. For Christ is not God’s magic incarnate but God’s love incarnate. He was not one to go around, Houdini-like, breaking the laws of physical nature but rather one who, beyond all limits of human nature, loved as none before nor after him has ever loved.