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This collection of inspiring credos by William Sloane Coffin melds Christian spirit with social justice. Coffin's credentials are impressive--he served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, and he is the inspiration for the character Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. He is also a lifelong social crusader and peace activist. In James Carroll's exquisite introduction he recalls a night in 1972 when he and Coffin and numerous other ministers were thrown in jail for trespassing at the U.S. Capitol (while protesting the war in Vietnam). It was Coffin's baritone voice that broke the jailhouse silence, singing out Handel's "Messiah" and comforting the frightened men of the cloth. In fact, Coffin, author of The Heart is a Little to the Left has never been afraid to speak or sing out his beliefs. "I like to believe that I am an American patriot who loves his country enough to address her flaws," he states in the preface. "Today these are many, and all preachers worth their salt need fearlessly to insist that 'God 'n' Country' is not one word."

Editor Stephanie Egnotovich reviewed a lifetime of Coffin's sermons and unpublished speeches and then excerpted and organized them into categories. His words and her editing created a book that is full of quotables. For example:

On Social Justice and Economic Rights: "In the United States grim poverty is a tragedy that great wealth makes a sin."
On Social Justice and Civil Liberties: "Prejudice disfigures the observer, not the person observed. If only the latter could remember it."
On Patriotism: "All nations make decisions based on self-interest and then defend them in the name of morality."
On War and Peace: "We are beginning to resemble extinct dinosaurs who suffered from too much armor and too little brain."

For the leftist leaning Christian, this is the book you'll want to take on your next spiritual retreat, political protest, or any situation where left-leaning Christians gather to create social change. And when it's not being carted around in a satchel, it deserves a permanent residence on your lifelong spiritual contemplations bookshelf. --Gail Hudson

AUTHOR: William Sloane Coffin, James Carroll

CATEGORY: Book

MANUFACTURER: Westminster John Knox Press

ISBN: 0664227074

TYPE: Christianity - Christian Life - General, Christianity - Christian Life - Social Issues, Christianity - General, Christianity - Theology - General, Coffin, William Sloane, Philosophy, Quotations, Religion, Theology

MEDIA: Hardcover

# OF MEDIA: 1

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Customer Review of Credo
Words that will likely stay in one's Mind & Heart!
I noted no reviews gave credit to the origin of these words as collected by Editor Stephanie Egnotovich and Publisher Davis Perkins of John Knox Press. When I began to masticate upon the outline, quotes & thots therein, I was convinced it is a book I cannot be without! Emphasis upon Dr Coffin's outline of Faith, Hope/Love; Social Justice...Patriotism, War/Peace, Plus Nature...All take me back to hear him one great week of Montreat Music & Worship Conference. His preaching was complimented by his day by day-living as I sat next to him in the Bass section of Prof Elaine Brown's fabulous Choir. Not only did he use great richness of tone in his singing, but also in his profound statements. My memory will hold his deeply rich voice alongside his quotes of Walter Brueggemann: "Justice is to sort out what belongs to whom and return it to them!"
Parker Palmer: "Relationships-not facts and reason-are the key to reality." Huston Smith: "The larger the island of knowledge--The greater the shoreline of wonder!" These are sufficient to see him as the Master of metaphor in writing, preaching and conversation! Amen for this wondrously inspired collection from Bill Coffin's Wisdom treaure-chest!
Retired Chap Fred W Hood

Not Worth It
Credo, by William Sloane Coffin, 2004.

Bland, shallow liberalism. A grandfather telling tales of the glory days (struggling to remember names), back when, in his youth, in the 60's, he stuck it to the man and gave the powers that be the what for. The complete lack of content is thinly veiled by an occasionally clever turn-of-phrase, but, in the end, the book itself wasn't worth writing. It could be introduced, "Here are some cute things I said in the last 20 years of sermons. I didn't know what else to say." It's not even a book; it's journal clippings that should have been passed down to a niece rather than to the book-buying public. It's not a strong enough work even to serve as the credo for the liberals who would agree with him.

It is clear, through his highly predictable values ((...)no-nukes, Democratic, pro-affirmative action, kowtowing to feminism, self-effacing, anti-Bush, doubtful on miracles), that Coffin never actually knew any poor people. His thought life is driven by inane stereotypes common to the ivory tower ideology evangelists-the sad poor are oppressed by an opulent, governmentally protected middle class. Certainly greed is restricted to people with money. And no (...)person ever struggled with any psychiatric problems. Those people are INNOCENT. This is fortunate, because in Coffin's religious world there would be no atonement for them otherwise.

The only redeeming value of the book is the few one-liners that are just sly. He challenges people who lean on the Bible like a drunk leans on a lamppost, for support but not illumination. He tells us that the goal in life is to die young as late as possible. However, these are just too few and far between to comprise a book. Journal musings should be left in your desk drawer.

Each pondering deftly wrought
Credo is an inspirational treasury of thoughts, musings, hard-learned lessons, and much more from William Sloane Coffin, whose remarkable activist life has included service as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, publicly opposing the Vietnam war, being jailed as a civil rights "Freedom Rider", and earning the immortal caricature of Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. His uplifting wisdom in matters both spiritual and mundane is presented in bite-sized pieces, each pondering deftly wrought and worthy of extended contemplation. "A central message of Christian life is this: ask Jesus for but a thimbleful of help and you get an oceanful in return."

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