Take This Bread, a memoir by Sara Miles
Summary
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. “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 mysterious sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith she’d scorned, in work she’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.
Excerpt
Links of Interest
Listen to an interview with Miles about Take This Bread.
Read an interview with Miles conducted by Susan Isaacs.
Read more about the food pantry that Miles started in response to her conversion.
Listen to Miles’s story on NPR.
Reviews
Irked Magazine
Journey with Jesus
Center for Progressive Christianity