Praise for Jesus Freak

"Sara Miles is amazing, a wild, unique, funny Christian who puts her lack-of-money where her mouth is, which is in loving Jesus and taking care of God's children. I love her work."

—Anne Lamott, author, Traveling Mercies and Grace (Eventually)

"One of the most inspiring books I've ever read."

—Rob Bell, author, Velvet Elvis; pastor, Mars Hill Bible Church

"When Jesus calls, Sara Miles follows him into the beautiful and messy diversity of human life, where people long to be fed, healed, and forgiven, and discovers the vibrancy of Christian faith that often eludes the institutional church. If this is what it means to be a 'Jesus freak,' sign me up!"

—Diana Butler Bass, author, Christianity for the Rest of Us and A People's History of Christianity

"This is a passionate book!"

—Tony Campolo, professor emeritus, Eastern University

"This is a love story unabashedly, a love story between one woman and Jesus. It is also the toughest, tenderest, most textured, poignant, and substantial love story I have ever read."

—Phyllis Tickle, author, The Words of Jesus and The Great Emergence

"Sara Miles writes gorgeous prose . . . She's way too wound up for toned-down liberals, and way too out-of-the-shrink-wrap for straight-laced conservatives, and she calls both of them to a new vantage point. She has actually experienced something, and Someone, and by hearing her story, you start to catch what she's caught: which includes a sense of being caught, and caught up, and fed, and empowered to feed others. A beautiful, joyful, raucous, reverent book."

—Brian McLaren, author/speaker

"Sara Miles took Jesus seriously when he declared 'whosoever will, may come,' and translated it into action...This is a passionate book!"

—Tony Campolo, professor emeritus, Eastern University

"Oh, what a wonderful book! Its exciting and dynamic Christianity would have put me completely to shame were it not for the glowing warm-heartedness with which Sara encourages us into the faith life, the Church, of the future. Instead of shaming us it offers us a witness at once solid and tantalizing of what it is to be hooked into the Gospel."

—James Alison, Catholic priest and theologian

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