Much of what she writes about would be considered heresy in any denomination: lay people, she says, can do the things that only priests or ministers are allowed to do because that's how Jesus wants it. In this second book, the author writes more about her experiences at her church in San Francisco, and especially about her participation in a free food bank that she founded. I cannot blame any gay person who finds Christianity repulsive it is all the more amazing and inspirational to me when I read about the incredible witness of someone like Sara Miles and her remarkable church. The hatred of gay people in our society in general is sick that the roots of this vitriol began in the Bible is sicker still. Likewise, Sara Miles understands what the message of Jesus is better than damn near anyone I've ever heard of (with the possible exceptions of Shayne Clairborne and Dorothy Day).and she would be unwelcome in many, many American churches. I find it remarkable when I read about someone like Bishop Eugene Robinson in New Hampshire, for example, who has put up with incredible waves of hatred and fear simply for telling the world that he is a gay man. For all the good news and power that the Christian faith holds for all people, it is gay people-more than any other group-who have the right to hate Christians and Christianity. Let me just say that anytime I read about a person who is gay being Christian, I feel incredibly humbled. I loved Sara Miles's first book Take This Bread, and I loved this one, too.

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 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. 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. 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. For everyone afraid to feed hungry strangers, love the unlovable, or go to dark places to bless and heal, she offers hope.

In this new book, Sara Miles tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh and blood Jesus by doing something real. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world.' 'I came late to Christianity,' writes Sara Miles, 'knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread.

Take this bread a radical conversion