Take this Bread: A Radical ConversionBallantine Books, 2007 - 283 pages Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life. Then early one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. "I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian," she writes, "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 sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith she'd scorned, in work she'd never imagined. Here she tells how the seeds of her conversion were sown, and what her life has been like since she took that bread: as a lesbian left-wing journalist, religion for her was not about angels or good behavior or piety. 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 passionate book, is the living communion of Christ.--From publisher description. |
Contents
Chapter | 3 |
Chapter | 10 |
Chapter 4 | 24 |
War Years | 35 |
Chapter 6 | 54 |
Chapter 7 | 65 |
Chapter 8 | 74 |
Chapter 9 | 91 |
Faith and Politics | 159 |
Chapter 16 | 169 |
Chapter 17 | 179 |
Chapter 18 | 198 |
Chapter 19 | 207 |
Chapter 20 | 218 |
Chapter 21 | 227 |
Chapter 22 | 242 |
Chapter 10 | 98 |
Chapter 11 | 109 |
Chapter 12 | 119 |
Chapter 13 | 130 |
Chapter 14 | 141 |
Chapter 23 | 250 |
Chapter 24 | 261 |
Chapter 25 | 267 |
Acknowledgments | 281 |
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