Sara Miles - Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion
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Sara Miles
Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. 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.
The mysterious sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith shed scorned, in work shed never imagined. 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.
A lesbian left-wing journalist who covered revolutions around the world, Miles was not the woman her friends expected to see suddenly praising Jesus. 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. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the churchs altar to be given away. The first food pantry she established provided hundreds of poor, elderly, sick, deranged, and marginalized people with lifesaving food and a sense of belonging. Within a few years, the loaves had multiplied, and she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen more pantries.
Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characterschurch ladies, child abusers, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thievesall blown into Miless life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. She recounts stories about trudging through the rain in housing projects, wiping the runny nose of a psychotic man, storing a battered womans .375 Magnum in a cookie tin. She writes about the economy of hunger and the ugly politics of food; the meaning of prayer and the physicality of faith. Here, in this achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ.
The most amazing book. Anne Lamott
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Take This Bread
Energized [There are] many tasty morsels in this surprising book.
O: The Oprah Magazine
[Miles is] a skilled storyteller . Rigorously honest, Take This Bread demonstrates how hardand how necessaryit is to welcome everyone to the table, without exception.
San Francisco Chronicle
A memoir that blew me away I am going to foist this on every single hard-core left-wing religious nut I know. And make no mistake: there are many of us.
A nne L amott, Time
Recounted in exquisite detail Not since I read The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton, or Augustine's Confessions, have I read such a powerful autobiographical account. This book is a gem . How this story ends will remain with you forever.
The Decatur Daily
This [is a] tightly crafted, joyful memoir of coming to believe that God doesn't discriminate and grace is for all . [Miles's] mysticism stands in clear relief to the drone of megachurch jin goism that has so dominated the American cultural landscape in recent years.
National Catholic Reporter
A love song to the feast at the altar and the feast of a food pantry written with grit, authority, and integrity. The unlikely conversion of Sara Miles is a great read. She writes from a real life of faith and politics as they were meant to be.
N ORA G ALLAGHER , author of Changing Light
The finest confession of faith I've read in years . A good, tight, absorbing read, Take This Bread is also an astute assessment of the Church, at one deliciously outr parish, and of the present intertwining of politics and Christianity in American culture. This is the kind of book I would wish to write, were I wise enough or skilled enough or candid enough to do so.
P HYLLIS T ICKLE , author of The Divine Hours and former religion editor for Publishers Weekly
Grittier than many religious memoirs, Miles's story is a perceptive account of one woman's wholehearted, activist faith.
Publishers Weekly
[Take This Bread is] engaging, funny, and highly entertaining, including many surprises as well as the occasional wrong turn. Compelling reading.
Booklist
This book is a stunner. Beautifully and simply written, it is a wonderfully straightforward account of a life and a conversion that will leave many readers, as it left me, tingling with longing that such signs and wonders might emerge in and through our own stories.
J AMES A LISON , Catholic theologian, priest,
and author of Faith Beyond Resentment
Some books you can't put down, some you shouldn'tthis one's both. Sara's a writer like John Muir or Jane Addams, a gifted stylist whose passion translates to vivid storytelling. Take This Breadis necessary reading, I would think, for anyone who's ever taken a bite out of anything.
J . C . H ALLMAN, author of The Devil Is a Gentleman
ALSO BY Sara Miles
How to Hack a Party Line
Opposite Sex: Gay Men on Lesbians,
Lesbians on Gay Men (coeditor)
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems
of June Jordan (coeditor)
For Katie,
my blessing
1
The Family Table
2
Pilgrimage
3
Standing the Heat
4
Cooking with My Brother
5
War Years
6
First Communion
7
Crossing
8
Histories
9
Crossing II
10
Seeing More
11
Good Works
12
A Different Everyone
13
Church of the One True Sack
14
Gleaners
15
Faith and Politics
16
Words and Acts
17
The Desert
18
Manna
19
Misfits
20
Cooking with My Brother II
21
Rites
22
Multiplying the Loaves
23
Sunday Dinner
24
The Cost of Faith
25
The Heavenly Feast
T his book is a work of nonfiction. Some of the names in it, and a few identifying details, have been changed to protect privacy.
The conversations recorded in this book took place over a span of thirty years and in several countries. I took notes and checked quotes for all my formal interviews, but often I worked from memory. To the best of my ability, I've tried to reconstruct events, chronology, and dialogue accurately, but there are inevitable errors and omissions.
To use a religious analogy: This book is not the Bible imagined as inerrant and historically definitive. It's more the Bible I believe inthat is, a human compilation of stories told in different voices, edited and rearranged over many drafts to suggest truths not always fully understood.
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