Word is just breaking that The Rev. William Sloane Coffin has died.
Coffin was one of America's greatest Christian leaders and an inspiration to many of us. He was a champion of civil rights and the abolition of nuclear weapons. Coffin served as Yale's chaplain and as the senior minister of Riverside Church in New York City.
He was a United Church of Christ minister.
I met Coffin when I was a student at Pacific University in the late 1980s and he was kind enough to do an interview with me for my blog in 2004. We were also participants together in the Clergy Leadership Network during the 2004 elections.
There will be much more to say later.
Give praise tonight to God for the life and ministry of William Sloane Coffin!
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