William Sloane Coffin, Jr. died yesterday. He was the Yale University chaplain during a tumultuous period including the Vietnam war, and was widely credited both for mediating between students and the administration there and for national activity in anti-war and civil rights efforts over many decades. (He was immortalized by Gary Trudeau as a Doonesbury character along the way, and I hope Trudeau will offer some sort of tribute in the coming days.)"The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love."
A few links:
- Wikipedia's entry
- An excerpted interview (PBS) on his life and work
- A short sermon and interview on the end of the Cold War
- A blog interview from one year ago, on Bush, Iraq, and the role of the church
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