It was with a saddened heart that I just read the news that Robert Farrar Capon died yesterday. His thinking and writing on Christianity (especially how it relates to food and the rest of creation) has been more influential on me than I could ever say. He occupies pride of place on our Honorary Philistines page, and I’ve always considered him a patron saint of The Erstwhile Philistine, the kind of writer under whose shadow I labor.
I am Resurrection and I am Life, says the Lord.
Whoever has faith in me shall have life,
even though he die.
And everyone who has life,
and has committed himself to me in faith,
shall not die for ever.
As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives
and that at the last he will stand upon the earth.
After my awaking, he will raise me up;
and in my body I shall see God.
I myself shall see, and my eyes behold him
who is my friend and not a stranger.
For none of us has life in himself,
and none becomes his own master when he dies.
For if we have life, we are alive in the Lord,
and if we die, we die in the Lord.
So, then, whether we live or die,
we are the Lord’s possession.
(From the Book of Common Prayer)
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