Reverend William Sloane Coffin died Wednesday at the age of 81.
Bill Coffin, as his friends knew him, was one of recent America's greatest and most eloquent prophetic voices. For more than forty years, his passionate calls for peace, social justice, civil rights, and an end to nuclear insanity challenged this nation's conscience. Read a short appreciation of Coffin's life and work by Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel.
And read Dan Wakefield's piece in the recent issue of The Nation remembering Coffin's accomplishments--and those of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Father Daniel Berrigan and Rabbi Abraham Heschel--in battling racism, unjust war, nuclear proliferation, poverty and threats to civil liberties.
Wakefield's article was drawn from his new book, The Hijacking of Jesus, which traces how the Jesus who preached the Sermon on the Mount has in effect been hijacked by right-wingers and the Republican Party.
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