Two major appointments
After lengthy searches, new leaders have been chosen by a major church of the American Protestant left and by the leading organ of the Protestant right.
Learning from failure Like many a city congregation, New York's interdenominational Riverside Church, where Harry Emerson Fosdick once held forth, has suffered a slow membership decline, from 3,300 to 2,600 over the past decade. To turn things around, the church has hired flamboyant Presbyterian William Sloane Coffin, 53, who during 17 years as chaplain of Yale led many civil rights and antiwar rallies and twice went to jail.
Coffin has a social background that should...
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