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Recovered audio | Jamie Howison

In his bestselling book Velvet Elvis, the writer Rob Bell says of Robert Farrar Capon, “Go out and buy all his books and read them immediately.”  The journal The Living Church called Capon “a joyfully outrageous Christian teacher”, while of his work The New York Times Book Review said the following:  “Theology, Capon says, is a word game, the most serious word game of all, and he plays it very well indeed.”

In the fall of 2000, my wife Catherine and I visited Shelter Island, New York to spend two days with Robert and Valerie Capon, talking about life and faith, and sharing great food and a bottle or three of good wine.  What follows here is the one hour in those two days which we committed to tape… the interviewer is admittedly a bit stiff, but Robert is in fine form.

There are three ways to hear this interview (runs 44:58):

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3 Responses to “Fingerprints of Robert Farrar Capon”

[...] Jamie Howison in conversation with Robert Farrar Capon — the audio quality isn’t stellar, but the conversation is definitely worth tuning in. [...]

Joe Manafo said you had these tapes, I’m thrilled that you posted them. Capon has rocked my world book after book and I think I owe that to you because you mentioned it to Joe about Hunting the Divine Fox, and from there we jumped into his book on the parables and my faith as I knew it took on new life.

So thanks!

thanks for posting this, jamie…

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