William Sloane Coffin, a former Yale University chaplain, civil rights activist and self-proclaimed "disturber of the peace" who revelled in infuriating his critics, died, aged 81 in April. Receiving an award in 2003 he said, "American Christians need forcefully and fearlessly to remind our leaders that it was the devil who tempted Jesus with unparalleled power and wealth," Coffin said. "And it is the devil in each American that makes us love to feel powerful."
Ordained as a Presbyterian, he later joined the United Church of Christ.
