"Robert Farrar Capon" was an American Episcopal Church in the United States of America/Episcopal priest and author. He was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in 1925. A lifelong New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York. In 1965, he published his first book, Bed and Board, and in 1977 he left the full-time ministry to devote more time to his writing career. He authored a total of twenty books, including Between Noon and Three, The Supper of the Lamb, Genesis: The Movie, and a trilogy on Jesus’ parables: The Parables of Grace, The Parables of the Kingdom, and The Parables of Judgment.

Capon described himself in the introduction to one of his books as an “old-fashioned high churchman and a Thomism/Thomist to boot.” One of Capon’s primary themes is the radical divine grace/grace of God. Capon summarizes his broad view of salvation as follows:

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The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Older women are like aging strudels-the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.