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Take This Bread : A Radical Conversion by Sarah Miles, Sara Miles is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is Take This Bread : A Radical Conversion about?

Early one morning, for no earthly reason, Sara Miles, raised an atheist, wandered into a church, received communion, and found herself transformed–embracing a faith she’d once scorned. 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. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to be given away. Within a few years, she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen food pantries in the poorest parts of their city. __Take This Bread__ is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves–all blown into Miles’s life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ. “The most amazing book.” –Anne Lamott “Engaging, funny, and highly entertaining . . . Miles comments, often with great insight, on the ugliness that many people associate with a particular brand of Christianity. Why would any thinking person become

Who reads Take This Bread : A Radical Conversion?

It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.

Common subject areas: religion, theology.

Author
Sarah Miles, Sara Miles
Publisher
Canterbury Press Norwich
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781848252141
Category
religious
Subjects
Christian, Fiction, Memoir
Rating
4.05 / 5 (230 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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