"Preach damnation!" Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin was emphatic. He was quoting "General" William Booth, founder of
the Salvation Army: "The best preaching is damnation with the Cross in
the midst of it." Dr. Coffin was addressing the students of Union
Theological Seminary at the opening of the present school year.
Regarded by Fundamentalists as their friendly but most effective
enemy, Dr. Coffin is proud to make the historic phrases of an ageless
Christianity his own. The Cross has always been in the midst of his
preaching. High in his Manhattan Church suspended...
Anne Halsey lives in Central Texas with her husband and three small children, where she is writing a work of creative nonfiction about her great-grandfather. Grounded in extensive archival research and personal interviews, this book-length project reconceives our understanding of the modern decline of Puritan New England culture. That seemingly familiar narrative is complicated by the previously unsung narratives of the women who found increasing independence and autonomy as their culture struggled to adapt to a more secular age.
For six years, Anne served as Media Director at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, where she created numerous radio, television, web, podcast, print, and film partnerships with major media outlets. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and her MFA in poetry at New York University.
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