“Here’s what you should do. You are not doing it. Try harder.” The writer of this post ascribes this quote to Robert Farrar Capon, but doesn’t tell us where it comes from exactly. It reads like something Capon would write.
“Here’s what you should do. You are not doing it. Try harder.” The writer of this post ascribes this quote to Robert Farrar Capon, but doesn’t tell us where it comes from exactly. It reads like something Capon would write.
A little bit of Robert Farrar Capon to brighten the afternoon: the preacher as naughty child. I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills…and flush them all down the drain. The church, by and large, has …
Tomorrow the revolution goes on. …faithful preaching is always more than a mild-mannered artful description of the world and the human condition. It must also be part of a process of conversion. In order to enter this strange Kingdom of Heaven, we must be born again, and again, and again. And there is rarely any …
“I don’t preach Jesus’ story in the light of my experience, as some sort of helpful symbol or myth that is helpfully illumined by my own story of struggle and triumph. Rather, I am invited by Easter to interpret my story in the light of God’s triumph in the Resurrection. I really don’t have a …
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