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“As a listener, the stories in scripture…keep evangelizing me.” Miles said she’s come to see our own stories like the parables in the Bible-and like Jesus’ parables, they have the power to evangelize, to share the good news. “As a writer, the gospels just blew me away,” she said. Miles said her life continues to be transformed through not only her own story and stories from the Bible, but by the stories of those she encounters. During two, 90-minute teaching sessions on Wednesday, Miles shared her perspective and experiences when it comes to evangelism, service, and unleashing God’s generosity. Miles-who later wrote Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead and City of God: Faith in the Streets-kept going back to church, was eventually baptized, and started a food pantry at the church that now serves hundreds each week. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. “You could say I took my first communion but the fact is it took me,” said the author and former journalist, who also serves as director of ministry at St. Sara Miles was raised as an atheist, but everything changed the day she entered a church at age 46, ate a piece of bread, and took a sip of wine.

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Within a few years, the loaves had multiplied, and she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen more pantries. The first food pantry she established provided hundreds of poor, elderly, sick, deranged, and marginalized people with lifesaving food and a sense of belonging.

Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church's altar to be given away.

She was certainly not the kind of person the government had in mind to run a 'faith-based charity.' Religion for her was not about angels or good behavior or piety it was about real hunger, real food, and real bodies. 'I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian,' she writes, 'or, as I thought of it rather less politely, a religious nut.' But she ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed.Ī lesbian left-wing journalist who covered revolutions around the world, Miles was not the woman her friends expected to see suddenly praising Jesus. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer.