Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to be given away. She was certainly not the kind of person the government had in mind to run a “faith-based charity.” Religion for her was not about angels or good behavior or piety it was about real hunger, real food, and real bodies. In this astonishing story, she tells how the seeds of her conversion were sown, and what her life has been like since she took that bread.Ī lesbian left-wing journalist who covered revolutions around the world, Miles was not the woman her friends expected to see suddenly praising Jesus. The mysterious sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith she’d scorned, in work she’d never imagined.

“I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian,” she writes, “or, as I thought of it rather less politely, a religious nut.” But she ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Please Note: This book is a Print on demand publication, delivery time approximately 5-7 working days.“Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.” She is the founder and director of The Food Pantry, and serves as Director of Ministry at St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco. Sara Miles is one of today’s most inspiring and powerful Christian writers and speakers and is in constant demand as a keynote speaker and workshop leader at denominational clergy assemblies, conferences, seminaries, churches, and festivals. Here, in this beautiful, passionate book, is Christ's living communion. Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters-church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and gangsters - all blown into Miles' life by the relentless force of her new-found calling. Sara started a food pantry giving away literally tons of food from around the same altar where she'd first received the body of Christ, and providing hundreds of hungry families with free groceries each week. She ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed, embracing a faith she'd scorned and which would lead to feeding others in a way that she'd never imagined. Then one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and writer.

The story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert, Take This Bread is not only a spiritual memoir but a call to action. Lent and Easter Books for Adults & Children Catechesis & Understanding the Catholic Faith

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