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Accolades: Warren Goldstein
Posted 6/16/2006
Professor Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department, A&S, had a busy spring with numerous lectures, discussions, and published essays focusing on the legacy of the late William Sloane Coffin Jr. and the current state of liberal Protestantism.
Coffin, a former Yale chaplain and renowned activist for peace and social justice, died on April 12. His life is the subject of Goldstein’s critically acclaimed book, William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience.
On June 14, Goldstein joined a panel discussion hosted by John Dankosky, news director of WNPR Connecticut Pubic Radio, on the question of where and whether a successor to Coffin as a political-religious leader can be found today. The other panelists were sociologist Kai Erikson (who was Goldstein’s dissertation advisor at Yale), and Serene Jones of the Yale Divinity School.
Goldstein’s biography raised this same question for Dan Wakefield, whose latest book is titled The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate. Wakefield, in the April 24 issue of The Nation, credits Goldstein’s biography with recalling “in stirring detail the work of leaders like Reverend Coffin” and other Christian and Jewish leaders “in battling racism, unjust war, nuclear proliferation, poverty and threats to civil liberties.”
Goldstein spoke at Gettysburg College on April 11 on “William Sloane Coffin and Modern Religious and Political Liberalism”; at the Boston College Conference on the History of Religion on March 24 on “Blue Religion in Red States: the Revival of Liberal Protestantism in America”; and was a panel respondent to Michael Kazin’s program on public values, “A Difficult Marriage: American Protestants and American Politics,” at Trinity College on March 9.
Continuing to write on these subjects, Goldstein contributed an article, “William Sloane Coffin’s Legacy of Exceptional Joy” to the National Catholic Reporter of May 19.
In the May/June issue of Yale Alumni Magazine, Goldstein recounted the civil rights activism and opposition to the Vietnam War and military draft that characterized Coffin’s political stance and religious preaching during the 1960s and 1970s. “Bill Coffin changed many lives by drawing people into deeper moral and religious confrontation with war and injustice,” Goldstein wrote.
Coffin, a former Yale chaplain and renowned activist for peace and social justice, died on April 12. His life is the subject of Goldstein’s critically acclaimed book, William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience.
On June 14, Goldstein joined a panel discussion hosted by John Dankosky, news director of WNPR Connecticut Pubic Radio, on the question of where and whether a successor to Coffin as a political-religious leader can be found today. The other panelists were sociologist Kai Erikson (who was Goldstein’s dissertation advisor at Yale), and Serene Jones of the Yale Divinity School.
Goldstein’s biography raised this same question for Dan Wakefield, whose latest book is titled The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate. Wakefield, in the April 24 issue of The Nation, credits Goldstein’s biography with recalling “in stirring detail the work of leaders like Reverend Coffin” and other Christian and Jewish leaders “in battling racism, unjust war, nuclear proliferation, poverty and threats to civil liberties.”
Goldstein spoke at Gettysburg College on April 11 on “William Sloane Coffin and Modern Religious and Political Liberalism”; at the Boston College Conference on the History of Religion on March 24 on “Blue Religion in Red States: the Revival of Liberal Protestantism in America”; and was a panel respondent to Michael Kazin’s program on public values, “A Difficult Marriage: American Protestants and American Politics,” at Trinity College on March 9.
Continuing to write on these subjects, Goldstein contributed an article, “William Sloane Coffin’s Legacy of Exceptional Joy” to the National Catholic Reporter of May 19.
In the May/June issue of Yale Alumni Magazine, Goldstein recounted the civil rights activism and opposition to the Vietnam War and military draft that characterized Coffin’s political stance and religious preaching during the 1960s and 1970s. “Bill Coffin changed many lives by drawing people into deeper moral and religious confrontation with war and injustice,” Goldstein wrote.
