![]() ![]() "There is a surprise around every corner." She adds, "Though nominally a 'secular city,' you can constantly be surprised by places, arches, people, niches, and corners that are 'faith-filled'. "The Mission in particular is a place that is deliberately and profoundly, 'mixed up'," she says. Though not originally from San Francisco-a small city vivid in its multiplicity-Miles has made it home for more than 20 years. In her new book, City of God: Faith in the Streets (Jericho, Feb.), Miles interweaves characters and portraits of San Francisco to bring her urban ministry to life. Instead, she finds God in the city, her convictions on its sidewalks and in its people. "I don't mean to be anti-intellectual, but my own understanding is that God is not a logical proof, not a good idea, or about moral principles and platitudes," she says. Miles describes her faith as orthodox, sacramental, and unapologetically experiential. ![]() "I ate a piece of bread, drank some wine, and Jesus happened to me.” "The way I first experienced God was to have him in my mouth," Miles says, referring to the moment she first took the bread and wine of Communion and began the process of her "annoyingly ongoing conversion,” recounted in Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion (Ballantine, 2007). ![]() As with the act of smudging foreheads with ashes, Miles came to Christianity physically rather than through doctrine or revelation. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |