Sara Miles’ life moves more deeply into connecting spiritual and physical hunger when she walks into an Episcopal church one Sunday morning and takes communion. Communion, community, hunger, and nourishment tie together Miles’ life, from her experience as a student and reporter in Latin America in an era of war and unrest, to her time working in New York City restaurant kitchens, to her work in helping to start food pantries in San Francisco. In her spiritual memoir, Take This Bread, Sara Miles explores the connection between spiritual and physical hunger and nourishment. Hunger and nourishment are recognized and fulfilled. Through this holy and festive food and drink, we are strengthened as we go out into the world. This eating and drinking is embraced by Jesus Christ’s promise to connect us more deeply with God, ourselves, and others. A central element of Christianity, after all, is taking communion, eating bread and drinking wine.
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Miles, Sara, 1952- | Christian converts - United States - Biography. Within a few years, the loaves had multiplied, and she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen more pantries."-BOOK JACKET. The first food pantry she established provided hundreds of poor, elderly, sick, deranged, and marginalized people with lifesaving food and a sense of belonging. 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. "A lesbian left-wing journalist who covered revolutions around the world, Miles was not the kind of woman her friends expected to see suddenly praising Jesus. In this story, she tells how the seeds of her conversion were sown, and what her life has been like since she took that bread." "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 she'd scorned, in work she'd never imagined. "I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian," she writes. Then early 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. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.
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