![]() ![]() Gregory’s, and then more pantries across the city. This pursuit leads her to found a food pantry at St. With joy and trepidation, she launches on a quest to understand this experience and share it with others. She experiences a mystical encounter with Christ’s body in the bread and in her connection with the bodies of those around her. ![]() She receives her first communion there, unprepared and uneducated, and finds her life transformed by the sacramental experience. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco. The turning point comes one day when she stumbles into St. Miles’ story begins with an atheist childhood and early adulthood spent as a reporter covering left-wing radical revolutionaries, who shared whatever scant food they had with her. Take this Bread is a spiritual memoir centered around the experience of feeding and being fed and developing a theology of the Body of Christ. Sara Miles is a beautiful writer with a powerful story and a profound witness of faith to share. ![]() The pink pen I was using to make notes and stars and underlines seemed to bleed across every page. ![]() This book was so rich and full it is hard to describe. Take This Bread: A Spiritual Memoir of a Twenty-First Century Christian by Sara Miles, 2007, Ballantine Books, 294 pp. ![]()
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