A wonderfully provocative little book. Reader beware: you'll be offended at some point. Capon attempts to show that at the heart of our search for romance, money, and well-being is religion, works-…
Capon applies his wit and erudition to the parables of judgment Jesus spoke and acted out as his earthly life was ending. As usual, Capon's theology is an odd evangelical/universalist hybrid: we ar…
Is spiritual experience real? Or is it a delusion? When we pray, what happens? Can science explain God? In Fingerprints of God, National Public Radio religion correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagert…
The first volume of Capon's trilogy on Jesus' parables, The Parables of the Kingdom covers the short, almost one-sentence parables that occur in the Gospels before the feeding of the five thousand.…
What is the foundation of good preaching? How should preachers prepare themselves to faithfully and effectively address the church? These are often asked - and often answered -questions. But the au…
The creation story stands as one of the most famous familiar in Scripture. But, the author says most of us miscontrue it. The reason? We have fallen into the habit of reading Genesis the way we rea…