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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 a Christian? is one of the questions she

addresses, and her answer is also compelling reading.”

–Booklist

“Powerful . . . This book is a gem [and] will remain with you

forever.”

–The Decatur Daily

“What Miles learns about faith, about herself and about the gift of

giving and receiving graciously are wonderful gifts for the

reader.”

–National Public Radio

“[A] joyful memoir . . . advocates big-tent Christianity in the

truest sense . . . a story of finding sustenance and passing it

on.”

–National Catholic Reporter

“Rigorously honest, Take This Bread demonstrates how

hard–and how necessary–it is to welcome everyone to the table,

without exception.”

–San Francisco Chronicle

“Moving, delightful and significant.”

–The Christian Century

Don’t miss the reading group guide in the back of the book.

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Where is it written that literary women must move to coastal

California (if they don't already live there), become Episcopalians

and write conversion memoirs? Miles, like recent memoirists Diana

Butler Bass, Nora Gallagher and Lindsey Crittenden, loves Jesus and

detests the religious right, though she is also critical of "the

sappy, Jesus-and-cookies tone of mild-mannered liberal

Christianity." Mild-mannered she is not. Converted at age 46 when

she impulsively walked into a church and received communion for the

first time, the former war correspondent suddenly understood her

life's mission: to feed the hungry. What her parish needed, she

decided, was a food pantry—and within a year (and over opposition

from some fellow parishioners) she had started one that offered

free cereal, fruit and vegetables to hundreds of San Francisco's

indigent every Friday. Not willing to turn anyone away, she raised

funds and helped set up other food pantries in impoverished areas,

occasionally "crossing the line from self-righteous do-gooder to

crusading zealot." For Miles, Christianity "wasn't an argument I

could win, or even resolve. It wasn't a thesis. It was a mystery

that I was finally willing to swallow." Grittier than many

religious memoirs, Miles's story is a perceptive account of one

woman's wholehearted, activist faith. (Feb. 20)

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