William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.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 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 also was a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth1 June 1924
CountryUnited States of America
I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.