![]() The family table - Pilgrimage - Standing the heat - Cooking with my brother - War years - First communion - Crossing - Histories - Crossing II - Seeing more - "Good works" - A different everyone - Church of the One True Sack - Gleaners - Faith and politics - Words and acts - The desert - Manna - Misfits - Cooking with my brother II - Rites - Multiplying the loaves - Sunday dinner - The cost of faith - The heavenly feastĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:08:14 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40322310 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Here, in this passionate book, is the living communion of Christ.-From publisher description She writes about the economy of hunger and the ugly politics of food the meaning of prayer and the physicality of faith. 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. The sacrament of communion has sustained Miles ever since, in a faith she'd scorned, in work she'd never imagined. ![]() "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. ![]() ![]() Then early one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life. ![]()
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