false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg 153242 2 &#8220;Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.&#8221;<br>&#8211;Sara Miles<br><br>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. &#8220;I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;or, as I thought of it rather less politely, a religious nut.&#8221; But she ate a piece of bread, took a sip of wine, and found herself radically transformed.<br><br>The mysterious sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith she&#8217;d scorned, in work she&#8217;d 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. <br><br>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 &#8220;faith-based charity.&#8221; 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 church&#8217;s 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.<br><br>Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters&#8211;church ladies, child abusers, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves&#8211;all blown into Miles&#8217;s 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 woman&#8217;s .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.<br>&#8220;<u>The</u> most amazing book.&#8221; &#8211; Anne Lamott 147924 2007 Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion total:262|5:80|4:117|3:49|2:13|1:3| 262 1044 482 93 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 2 7 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 08:11:36 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 08:13:09 -0700 2007
But what that amounts to, basically, is saying "hi" to a guy with a KJV in the front seat of his pickup. Otherwise, fundies play the one-dimensio...more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 4 2 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 18:53:12 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 11 22:11:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 4 1 false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 17:42:26 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 18:06:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 5 2 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 17:11:13 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 05 20:17:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 2 2 false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 08:27:43 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 10:50:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 4 1 false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 29 09:26:25 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 09 16:12:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 3 0 false Fri Dec 05 20:57:50 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 11:48:26 -0800 2008 Miles writes about the diffi...more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 5 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 12:20:15 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 12:25:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 4 0 false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 14 17:18:39 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 22:33:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 5 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 19:42:33 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 17:44:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 3 0 false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 15 17:48:15 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 17:55:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 5 0 false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:28:54 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 18:48:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 06 21:26:18 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 21:41:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 3 0 false Sat Oct 31 19:10:16 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 19:13:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 0 0 false Wed Dec 17 20:32:27 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 20:32:54 -0800 2008
Miles tells a story about her call to justice that is as simple as feeding the hungr...more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 3 1 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 11:06:18 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 20:21:06 -0700 2009

The concept appeals to me, and I like what the author has to say about inclusiveness and about the idea of the unexpected when it comes to the conversion experience or even just our experiences with others.

Further into the ...more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 4 2 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 24 17:58:19 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 17:58:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 4 0 false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 11:11:48 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 13:06:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 0 0 false Sat Jul 12 15:59:01 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 15:59:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 153242 0345486927 9780345486929 250 91 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172249262m/153242.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153242.Take_This_Bread_A_Radical_Conversion 5 0 false Mon Jun 23 21:53:59 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 07:04:08 -0700 2008 here for more info.

This book made me hungry, both physically and spiritual.

Which is totally fitting, as it is a book about being fed, physically and spiritually.

Sara Miles writing is superb and rich ...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=153242