Admirers Pay Tribute to Activist Minister, William Sloane Coffin

[Rose Siding]

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"He believed the long and great struggle of America was the struggle to ensure that the rewards of a free society went to everybody and not just to the top," journalist Bill Moyers told the packed crowd at the Riverside Church, where Coffin once served as a senior minister.
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Moyers, who interviewed Coffin for PBS after he'd learned he was dying, said Coffin told him then that he was saying the prayer of St. Augustine: "Give me chastity and self-restraint, but not yet."

Coffin's son said Thursday that it wasn't always easy having such an active father, but that over the years the family learned to share him.

"If three days before Christmas he called to say that he was spending Christmas with the hostages in Iran, what could I do, get mad?" David Coffin asked.
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At the end of Thursday's service, pallbearers carried out his body in a simple pine casket bearing white lilies and a folded American flag. His body will be cremated, and his ashes will be taken to Vermont.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-coffin21apr21,1,4176188.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

[Cassandra]

1. A friend of mine was at the service yesterday.

She said it was amazing and very inspiring. She knew Coffin back in the day; said it was like old home week.