Book description
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles,
"knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around
eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article
of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world."
In this new book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to
follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. For everyone
afraid to feed hungry strangers, love the unlovable, or go to dark
places to bless and heal, she offers hope. She holds out the promise
of a God who gave a bunch of housewives and fishermen authority to
forgive sins and raise the dead, and who continues to call us to
action. And she tells, in vivid, heartbreakingly honest stories, how
the ordinary people around her are transformed by taking up God's work
in the world.
Sara Miles offers a fresh, fully embodied faith that sweeps away the
anxious formulas of religion to reveal the scandalous power of eating
with sinners, embracing the unclean, and loving the wrong people.
Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead is her
inspiring book for undomesticated Christians who still believe, as she
writes, "that Jesus has given us the power to be Jesus."
Sara Miles is the founder and director of The Food
Pantry, and serves as Director of Ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa
Episcopal Church in San Francisco. Her other books include Take
This Bread: A Radical Conversion, and her writing has appeared
in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker,
Salon, and on National Public Radio. www. saramiles. net
