Book Review

Book Review: Take This Bread: a Radical Conversion by Sara Miles
Balantine Books, 2007

For anyone who is associated with a mainline church and feels that the church is sometimes, er, slow to respond to the needs of social justice (usually due to the long process of forming committees and subcommittees and meeting and voting and so on), drop everything and read this book. It is a strange tale about a an atheist lesbian cook mother latin-American-war-reporter who, for no particular reason, stops into a church one morning, takes communion, and is profoundly touched. She keeps attending, eventually forming a food bank that becomes an extension of the communion she takes. She doesn't glamourize the whole food bank thing, so if you decide to follow suit, don't expect choirs of angels to swoop out of the sky singing your praises (something I learned the hard way when I started to become involved with social justice). But it is a great read and I can almost guarantee that you will love it.

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll open a food bank.

Erin