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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">ventually, many alienated Protestants abandoned mainline churches in favor of the evangelical congregations that formed the core of the new conservative Christianity.</span></div><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Who was Coffin?</span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">Coffin was a prominent figure in <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/appendix-b-classification-of-protestant-denominations/" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">mainline Protestantism</a>, the term given to denominations like Episcopalians, Methodists and Presbyterians. These were the churches of the middle- and upper-class establishment, and their leaders had long enjoyed close connections to political elites.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">The Coffin family belonged to the upper-class circles of New York City. Coffin’s father led the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his uncle, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Sloane-Coffin" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">Henry</a>, had been minister of the prestigious Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church as well as president of Union Theological Seminary, the divinity school <a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-history-of-union-theological-seminary-in-new-york/9780231064552" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">that trained</a>generations of noted ministers and theologians.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">Coffin’s own life exemplified the overlapping circles of government, academia and religion in which elite Protestants moved. He was a CIA officer during the Korean War, and after completing his studies at Yale, he became the university’s chaplain.</p><span style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From cold warrior to anti-war defendant</span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">Coffin, however, turned against the government when it came to Vietnam. In 1965, he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/13/us/rev-william-sloane-coffin-dies-at-81-fought-for-civil-rights-and-against.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">helped establish</a> an anti-war group, “Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam.” At Yale, he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1967/10/13/archives/yale-chaplain-urges-students-to-ponder-spurning-the-draft.html" style="color: rgb(241, 96, 44); text-decoration-line: none;">openly argued</a> against the war.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;">...</p>