GTU Beatitudes Society

Greetings DSPT folks,

The GTU Beatitudes Society is hosting a stellar guest.

Thursday, Feb 8, 6:30, Mudd 103 _______________________________________________________

Sara Miles is a left-wing journalist, cook and activist, a blue-state lesbian raised as an atheist, who lived an enthusiastically secular life--until she wandered into a San Francisco church, ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed by her first communion.

Her new book Take This Bread--A Radical Conversion is the story of her journey to faith, and of her decision to take Jesus' call to feed others literally, by organizing food pantries run by poor people. Phyllis Tickle calls this book "the finest confession of faith I've read in years....an astute assessment of the present intertwining of politics and Christianity in American culture." And our Anne Howard says: "this is the BEST description of Christianity, and the most HONEST description of church life, that I've ever read."

Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Out, The Progressive, La Jornada and Salon, among others. She has written extensively on military affairs, politics and culture. She is the founder of St. Gregory's Food Pantry in SF. _______________________________________________________

And if that's not enough to convince you to blow off everything else, check out her short sermon on the radical Gospel about gay marriage and little children.

http://www.saintgregorys.org/Liturgy/Sermons/AudioFile/061008-1030-miles.mp3

She is also blogging for the Beatitudes Society and is keen to get to know us at the GTU.

Everyone is welcome. Feel free to bring any friends and lovers, there will be enough pizza and wine and conversation for all. If you need transport, let me know.

If you want to know more about the Beatitudes Society and its paid fellowship program for GTU students, that's a good reason to come as well.

Pax,
Alexander