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Hope and Faith – two quotes from William Sloane Coffin

By on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 | No Comments

Two quotes from William Sloane Coffin, author of Credo: “Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart’s full of hope, you can be persistent when you can’t be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any […]

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Sentimental or Loving – from William Sloane Coffine

By on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | No Comments

In his book, CREDO, Bill Coffin writes: To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

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The Joy that is of God

By on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 | No Comments

From Bill Coffin, in Credo The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures.  Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning. Joy is the most important of Christian emotion.  Duty calls only when gratitude fails to pompt. ( Another way of saying this might be:  “Legalism will have reign over […]

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Dangers of an Individualistic Spirituality

By on Friday, November 18th, 2011 | No Comments

From Bill Coffin, in Credo We must guard against being too individualistic and elitist in our understanding of spirituality. Somw Cfristians talk endlessly about the importance of one’s interior life and how to develop it more fully. forgetting that Christ is born to bring hope and joy also to whole communities of people – the […]

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What is Faith?

By on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 | No Comments

Bill Coffin, on FAITH – from Credo “What is faith?  Faith is being grasped by the power of love.  Faith is recognizing that what makes God is infinate mercy, not infinate control; not power, but love unending.  Faith is recognizing that if at Christmas Jesus became like us, it was so that we might become […]

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William Sloan Coffin – on love

By on Thursday, November 17th, 2011 | No Comments

I first met Bill Coffin while a student in seminary.  In fact, I to introduce him at a campus event sponsored by “The Ethics Luncheon” – if I can find the tape and covert it from VCR to digital format, I will post it here.  Don’t know who Coffin is?  Do a Google Search.  You’ll […]

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