![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.Sara Miles Grittier than many religious memoirs, Miless story is a perceptive account of one womans wholehearted, activist faith. It was a mystery that I was finally willing to swallow. For Miles, Christianity wasnt an argument I could win, or even resolve. Not willing to turn anyone away, she raised funds and helped set up other food pantries in impoverished areas, occasionally crossing the line from self-righteous do-gooder to crusading zealot. What her parish needed, she decided, was a food pantryand within a year she had started one that offered free cereal, fruit and vegetables to hundreds of San Franciscos indigent every Friday. Converted at age 46 when she impulsively walked into a church and received communion for the first time, the former war correspondent suddenly understood her lifes mission: to feed the hungry. Where is it written that literary women must move to coastal California, become Episcopalians and write conversion memoirs? Miles, like recent memoirists Diana Butler Bass, Nora Gallagher and Lindsey Crittenden, loves Jesus and detests the religious right, though she is also critical of the sappy, Jesus-and-cookies tone of mild-mannered liberal Christianity. Sara Miles, author of City of God, on her Faith & Background ![]()
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