Holy impatience: William Sloane Coffin, critic of the church
It is a little unusual for a biography (William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience) to be published when its subject is not only alive but is the author of his own just-published best-seller (Credo). Bill Coffin, however, is anything but usual. As Harvey Cox says, reviewing Warren Goldstein’s biography, “There is only one Bill Coffin.”