William Sloane Coffin
Gawker reminded us that we forgot to honor the passing of Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. If good people actually “go home to be with the Lord” when they die, then the Rev. has secured himself a place in the Kingdom. In an age of Pat Robertsons and James Dobsons, Coffin was a true crusader. From Wikipedia:
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006) was a liberal Presbyterian and United Church of Christ clergyman and long-time peace activist with international stature.
He was a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr’s social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
He went on to serve as Senior Minister at the Riverside Church in New York City, and President of SANE/Freeze (now Peace Action), the nation’s largest peace and justice group, and prominently opposed United States military intervention from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War.
