Take This Bread: A Radical ConversionRandom House Publishing Group, 2008 M11 19 - 320 páginas “Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.” –Sara Miles 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. A lesbian left-wing journalist who covered revolutions around the world, Miles was not the woman her friends expected to see suddenly praising Jesus. She was certainly not the kind of person the government had in mind to run a “faith-based charity.” Religion for her was not about angels or good behavior or piety; it was about 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. The first food pantry she established provided hundreds of poor, elderly, sick, deranged, and marginalized people with lifesaving food and a sense of belonging. Within a few years, the loaves had multiplied, and she and the people she served had started nearly a dozen more pantries. Take This Bread is rich with real-life Dickensian characters–church ladies, child abusers, millionaires, schizophrenics, bishops, and thieves–all blown into Miles’s life by the relentless force of her newfound calling. She recounts stories about trudging through the rain in housing projects, wiping the runny nose of a psychotic man, storing a battered woman’s .375 Magnum in a cookie tin. 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 achingly beautiful, passionate book, is the living communion of Christ. “The most amazing book.” – Anne Lamott |
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... heads in pews became , abroad , imbued with new authority : white , foreign , representatives of a powerful country and a mighty church . And though teaching children and caring for the sick in a strange country might be lonely and ...
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... heads a bright silk scarf , knotted at the ear . They are all barefooted , as is the preacher . The babies are allowed to crawl about the floor and offer remarks of their own , and dogs may stay if they behave . " Margaret had few ...
... heads a bright silk scarf , knotted at the ear . They are all barefooted , as is the preacher . The babies are allowed to crawl about the floor and offer remarks of their own , and dogs may stay if they behave . " Margaret had few ...
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... jacket stretched over a monumental stomach , Robert , the head chef , beckoned to me . Robert was in his late fifties , a black man who'd grown up cooking with his aunt and worked for twenty years on 16 Take This Bread.
... jacket stretched over a monumental stomach , Robert , the head chef , beckoned to me . Robert was in his late fifties , a black man who'd grown up cooking with his aunt and worked for twenty years on 16 Take This Bread.
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... heads over the transom to make obeisance . The waiters were another matter : None of them loved him , but all of them kept a careful and extremely polite distance . " R - e - s - p - e - c - t , " sang Robert to me , winking , launching ...
... heads over the transom to make obeisance . The waiters were another matter : None of them loved him , but all of them kept a careful and extremely polite distance . " R - e - s - p - e - c - t , " sang Robert to me , winking , launching ...
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... head out to place his bets . Patrick left me eccentric handwritten notes when I worked the late shift . " Dear friend , " I'd read , switching on the lights and bending over the prep counter , " Do you remember those golden days in ...
... head out to place his bets . Patrick left me eccentric handwritten notes when I worked the late shift . " Dear friend , " I'd read , switching on the lights and bending over the prep counter , " Do you remember those golden days in ...
Contenido
Chapter 15 | 159 |
Chapter 17 | 179 |
Chapter 18 | 198 |
Chapter 20 | 218 |
Chapter 22 | 242 |
Chapter 24 | 261 |
Acknowledgments | 281 |
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Página 3 - From Greenland's icy mountains ; From India's coral strand ; Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river ; From many a palmy plain ; They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Página 79 - And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Página 224 - O Lord our God, King of the Universe] who brings forth bread from the earth.
Página 235 - Make their life together a sign of Christ's love to this sinful and broken world, that unity may overcome estrangement, forgiveness heal guilt, and joy conquer despair.
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Página 86 - Christ lived a sinless life on earth; and describing God as the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfect deity who created the universe and still rules it...
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Página 86 - Christ that is still important in [his or her] life today," and agree that "when I die, I will go to Heaven because I have confessed my sins and have accepted Jesus Christ as my savior.