Why would any thinking person become a Christian? is one of the questions she addresses, and her answer is also compelling reading." Booklist "Powerful. Miles comments, often with great insight, on the ugliness that many people associate with a particular brand of Christianity. "The most amazing book." Anne Lamott "Engaging, funny, and highly entertaining. Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ. Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characterschurch ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thievesall blown into Miles's life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. Within a few years, she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of their city. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church's altar to be given away. A lesbian left-wing journalist who'd covered revolutions around the world, Miles didn't discover a religion that was about angels or good behavior or piety her faith centered on real hunger, real food, and real bodies. Early one morning, for no earthly reason, Sara Miles, raised an atheist, wandered into a church, received communion, and found herself transformedembracing a faith she'd once scorned.
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