The heart is a little to the left essays on public morality - Coffin, William Sloane, Jr (University Press of New England [for] Dartmouth College, 1999)
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The spiritual and the secular: can they meet? -- The politics of compassion -- Homophobia: the last "respectable" prejudice -- The authority of the Bible -- The dangers of self-righteousness -- The warhorse -- Civility, democracy, and multiculturalism
Includes bibliographical references
"William Sloane Coffin offers here a powerful antidote to the politics of the religious right with a clarion call to passive intellectuals and dispirited liberals to reenter the fray with an unabashedly Christian view of social justice. Refusing to cede the battlefield of morality to conservatives, he argues that "compassion demands confrontation," as he considers such topics as homophobia, diversity, nuclear weapons, and civil discourse."--BOOK JACKET.