Sara Miles is the founder and director of The Food Pantry, and Director of Ministry at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. She is the author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion and Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Salon, and NPR. She lives in San Francisco.
"An informative, luminous memoir of faith and
community."--Booklist
"CITY OF GOD is another gorgeous, gritty, profound work of art from
Sara Miles...I love everything she writes, but there is something
special about this new book."--Anne Lamott
"Gorgeously written, City of God takes Jesus from the walls of the
church to the streets of the city, showing us that where two or
more Anglicans or prostitutes or head-injured junkies or housewives
are gathered, He is with us. I cannot recommend this book highly
enough."--Nadia Bolz-Weber, New York Times bestselling author of
Pastrix
"Joyous and touching...An intriguing read, Miles' account will
resonate most with those who live in and love the inner
city."--Kirkus Reviews
"Once again Sara Miles has given us a great read about...how every
moment of our lives is liturgy, and each and every liturgy we do is
for the whole world which God loves so dearly."--Nedi Rivera,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon
"Rarely, if ever, have I heard or read or experienced a more
poignant or persuasive presentation of the city as metaphor and
prototype for the Kingdom of God. Miles's panorama is lived
theology, and its result is a kind of holy magnificence."--Phyllis
Tickle, author, The Great Emergence
"Sara is so inspiring...Where most aim for the clouds, she's
focused on the dirt and sweat and blood and struggle of this world
and the presence here in it with us-which is, of course, the best
news of all."--Rob Bell, author of What We Talk About When We Talk
About God and Love Wins
"Sara Miles gives us much more than a beautiful love song to her
neighborhood...she offers us a glimpse of how living Christian
faith can re-enchant the world."--James Alison, Catholic priest,
theologian, and author
"Sara Miles is a spiritual pioneer...Now she has taken us into the
streets of the city where the very hope of heaven intersects the
very the heart of life, where we might discover anew that God is
truly with us."--Bishop Michael Curry, Episcopal Diocese of North
Carolin
"There's a refreshing honesty to City of God; her actions on Ash
Wednesday take on greater significance in light of her
questioning."--Los Angeles Review of Books
"This is a convincing Lenten adventure into a dynamic Christian
view of faith in the streets, of repentance and blessing, life and
death, in the cracked sidewalks and fractured realities of the city
of God."--Publishers Weekly
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