Birth Name:

William Sloane Coffin

Male

Birth Date:

Sun, Jun 01, 1924

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New York, New York, United States

Age:

99

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

10°

Gem

51'

About William Sloane Coffin

William Sloane Coffin Jr. (June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006) was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA officer, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of H. Richard Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He also was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. 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 social justice group, and prominently opposed United States military interventions in conflicts, from the Vietnam War to the Iraq War. He was also an ardent supporter of gay rights.

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External Links:

• Interview from 1982 with William Sloane Coffin on Vietnam and the Anti-War movement WGBH Educational Foundation

• A Politically Engaged Spirituality Video and transcript of Coffin's April 2005 speech at Yale Divinity School

• Interview with William Sloane Coffin from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, August 2004

• William Sloane Coffin: A Lover's Quarrel With America Video interview from Old Dog Documentaries

• William Sloane Coffin - Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword Sermon and interview.

• A film clip "The Open Mind - A Man for All Seasons (1986)" is available at the Internet Archive

• Profile of Coffin from Yale Alumni Magazine, March 2004

• William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Papers (MS 1665). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

• Selected writings (PDF)

• Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze, the merger of SANE and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign)

• Faithful Security

• www.williamsloanecoffin.org This is the complete digital collection of William Sloane Coffin's sermons preached from the pulpit of New York City's Riverside Church 1977–1987.

• Speech "Who Is the Enemy?" delivered April 8, 1983 at a symposium in Kansas City.

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for William Sloane Coffin: Sun 10 Gemini, Moon 0 Gemini, Mercury 17 Taurus, Venus 16 Cancer, Mars 20 Aquarius, Jupiter 15 Sagittarius, Saturn 26 Libra, Uranus 21 Pisces, Neptune 17 Leo, Pluto 11 Cancer, Sun Opposition Jupiter, Mercury Quincunx Jupiter, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Sun Semi Sextile Pluto, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Square Mars, Venus Quincunx Jupiter, Venus Trine Uranus, Venus Semi Sextile Neptune, Venus Conjunct Pluto, Mars Semi Sextile Uranus, Mars Opposition Neptune, Jupiter Trine Neptune

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