While the future is ahead of us, we find ourselves facing the past; there is a comfort in focussing on what we know more certainly that bids us orient ourselves toward what has been rather than the uncertainties of what will be. Facing the unknown and uncertain future results in us looking in a direction …
If you’re attending worship with other Christians tomorrow and hearing a sermon, may it have this character: Preachers of the Word labor under three distinct requirements. First, they are to be faithful (pistoi). They are called to believe, and they are called only to believe. They are not called to know, or to be clever, …
From Robert Farrar Capon: Confession is not the first step on the road to recovery; it is the last step in the displaying of a corpse. Between Noon and Three, pg 74. Confession is not a transaction, not a negotiation in order to secure forgiveness; it is the after-the-last grasp of a corpse that finally …
“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.
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