![]() In Miles words, her story is political as well as personal: Sara Miles Ballantine $2495 Isbn 978 For the most part, Miles avoids the idealized and overly romantic haze that can surround stories like this and the result is a much more grounded and empowering book for those who read. Its the story of food pantries blossomed all over San Francisco, ministries of hospitality that have extended the table of the church far beyond the bounds of the sanctuary. Its about the out-working of that conversion in the feeding of the poorest and most marginalized in her home city. The beauty of Miles book is that this is more, far more, than a story of personal conversion. And nothing in Miles life, nor in the life of her congregation, would be the same again. In this act of eating Jesus, she discovered the beginning of a radical turn-around in everything that mattered to her. Miles, a left-leaning journalist, political activist and atheist, was not the most likely candidate for conversion to Christian faith, yet stumbling into a celebration of communion in an Episcopal church in San Francisco, Miles found an experience of profound change. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I cant claim it a life changer, but as a memoir of conversion centered at the table of God, its a book thats affirmed for me so much about faith, eucharist and church, and in the most compelling way. No doubt, one of the best reads for me in the past two years was Sara Miles Take this Bread: A Radical Conversion. Sara Miles, author of City of God, on her Faith & Background ![]()
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