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Lincoln Journal Star
April 6, 2018
We strive to fill this deep yearning we sense in ourselves, not realizing, or perhaps not admitting, that the best thing we can do is to be “receptive to the unfulfilled,” as author Sara Miles says, neither filling it nor denying it, but simply sitting with the emptiness and acknowledging the presence of longing.
Wink News
February 10, 2018
A Bonita Springs man was arrested Friday for soliciting a prostitute, according to the Naples Police Department. Sara Miles, public information officer with the 20th Judicial Circuit, confirmed that the man, Jay Barry Rosman, is a Lee County Circuit judge. The Naples Crime Suppression team conducted anÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
December 6, 2017
June Jordan (1936-2002) was a poet, activist, journalist, essayist and teacher. She wrote more than 25 books of poetry. In 1988, she was appointed professor of ... Roderick is the co-founder of Left Margin LIT: A Home for the Literary Arts, in Berkeley. He is author of “Blue Colonial” and “The Americans.”Ãâà...
New York Times
December 5, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — In Boston, the leader of a businesswomen's group said that some women were so angry about the wave of sexual harassment revelations that they no longer wanted to hire more men. In Kansas City, Mo., a women's career center is urging women not to throw caution to the wind whenÃâà...
Wink News
June 22, 2017
BOKEELIA, Fla. A 58-year-old woman, accused of driving drunk and killing a woman, pleaded no contest Wednesday to DUI manslaughter, 20th Judicial Circuit spokeswoman Sara Miles said. Brenda L. Green, of Bokeelia, was sentenced to eight years in prison followed by seven years of State probation,Ãâà...
Religion News Service
March 5, 2014
Jonathan Merritt is senior columnist for Religion News Service and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. He has published more than 2500 articles in outlets like USA Today, The Week, Buzzfeed and National Journal. Jonathan is author of "Jesus is Better Than You Imagined" and "A Faith of Our Own:Ãâà...
National Catholic Reporter (blog)
March 5, 2014
In her new book City of God, Sara Miles offers an extended reflection on her experience offering ashes outdoors in the Mission District of San Francisco on Ash Wednesday of 2012. Miles' writing first appeared in the religious landscape with her 2008 book Take This Bread, which recounts her sudden andÃâà...
Huffington Post
February 11, 2014
About fourteen years ago, I took my first communion. I hadn't known — in fact, hadn't remotely considered — that I was looking for God. I didn't believe in God: I was just poking my head into an interesting-looking building to see what was going on. Over the next decade, buoyed by the promise that aÃâà...
KQED (blog)
December 19, 2012
The Food Pantry's Sara Miles on Serving the City's Hungry .... Every Friday the author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion and Jesus Freak helps transform the church's main sanctuary into a sort of free pop-up farmers' market for the poor where this city's most needy pick up produce, pantry items, andÃâà...
KQED (blog)
December 19, 2012
... who lined up some 30 edible vendors including food trucks, local food artisans selling take-home gift items, and on-site gourmet grub (this writer welcomed the arancini on a cold day). Miles' efforts have spawned more than 18 other food pantries around the Bay Area. Every Friday the author of Take ThisÃâà...
ChristianityToday.com
July 22, 2010
Real Presence. What can happen when a thoroughly secular woman eats a piece of bread. A review of 'Jesus Freak.' John Wilson| July 22, 2010. Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead. Our Rating. 4 Stars - Excellent. Book Title. Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead. Author. Sara Miles. Publisher.
ChristianityToday.com
July 22, 2010
Real Presence. What can happen when a thoroughly secular woman eats a piece of bread. A review of 'Jesus Freak.' John Wilson| July 22, 2010. Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead. Our Rating. 4 Stars - Excellent. Book Title. Jesus Freak: Feeding Healing Raising the Dead. Author. Sara Miles. Publisher.
YES! Magazine
September 3, 2008
Sara Miles never expected to find herself at an Episcopal church handing out bread, beans, tomatoes, and groceries to crowds of San Franciscans. A lesbian, former atheist, and journalist, Miles had for years been suspicious of church-run charities. Then again, Miles had always been conscious of theÃâà...
NPR
May 7, 2008
Until recently, I thought being a Christian was all about belief. I didn't know any Christians, but I considered them people who believed in the virgin birth, for example, the way I believed in photosynthesis or germs. But then, in an experience I still can't logically explain, I walked into a church and a strangerÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
February 28, 2007
God probably had a few good giggles over Sara Miles' conversion. The San Francisco writer and former restaurant cook was a happy atheist, a probing journalist who covered wars and revolutions in Central America -- and a woman married to another woman. She certainly didn't intend to become aÃâà...
The Presbyterian Outlook
December 31, 1999
“Take This Bread” by Sara Miles. As Miles shares her story in this autobiography, the reader is invited to think about his/her relationship with the Lord's Supper, and to expand it wider to include more people, more love, more grace, more dancing and more food. She is an outstanding writer, and her wordsÃâà...
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