Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, and Raising the Dead
By Sara Miles
OK. I admit it. I'm a Sara Miles groupie. Even more than that - I. Am. A. Jesus. Freak. There. Happy?
From her years of experience as a journalist, a cook, a Food Pantry organizer, and now a minister (in the truest sense of the word) of hope and healing, Sara Miles captures the heart of the Christian faith in her newest book. Continuing with the brilliance of Take this Bread, Sara makes her readers aware of God's presence in all that surrounds us. Indeed, for Sara, and for many others, this presence is best described through the concept of the Incarnation - that God was made real in the body of a very real person: Jesus of Nazareth. Such embodiedness didn't die on a cross on a hill above Jerusalem, though. It lives on through the very bodies we have here on earth. "Every single thing the resurrected Jesus does on earth," says Miles, "he does through our bodies."
Through the stories Miles shares with her readers, we come to a different perspective on ancient Christian understandings of healing, serving the poor, and bringing liberation to the oppressed. Miles gets past the niceties of liberal Christianity ("I've embarrassed them by talking about Jesus too much. As if he were real."), and gets gritty: Death does not have the final answer. For those of us who follow the Christian practice of Lent, there can be no better reminder that Sunday's coming.
Heard about it from: Cokesbury
You can purchase it at: http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=830057
By Sara Miles
OK. I admit it. I'm a Sara Miles groupie. Even more than that - I. Am. A. Jesus. Freak. There. Happy?
From her years of experience as a journalist, a cook, a Food Pantry organizer, and now a minister (in the truest sense of the word) of hope and healing, Sara Miles captures the heart of the Christian faith in her newest book. Continuing with the brilliance of Take this Bread, Sara makes her readers aware of God's presence in all that surrounds us. Indeed, for Sara, and for many others, this presence is best described through the concept of the Incarnation - that God was made real in the body of a very real person: Jesus of Nazareth. Such embodiedness didn't die on a cross on a hill above Jerusalem, though. It lives on through the very bodies we have here on earth. "Every single thing the resurrected Jesus does on earth," says Miles, "he does through our bodies."
Through the stories Miles shares with her readers, we come to a different perspective on ancient Christian understandings of healing, serving the poor, and bringing liberation to the oppressed. Miles gets past the niceties of liberal Christianity ("I've embarrassed them by talking about Jesus too much. As if he were real."), and gets gritty: Death does not have the final answer. For those of us who follow the Christian practice of Lent, there can be no better reminder that Sunday's coming.
Heard about it from: Cokesbury
You can purchase it at: http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=830057
