Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Nancy and Polly have me reading Sara Miles: Take This Bread, a Radical Converson. I usually get bogged down about halfway through a non-fiction, but I've almost finished reading the entire book. Sara Miles is a member of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in San Francisco and a founder of food pantries there and elsewhere. She was raised by atheist parents and converted after she decided to drop in on her daily walk and received communion. I'm always interested in adult converts like Nevada Barr, the mystery writer, for example. Her spiritual memoir is also good: Seeking Enlightenment, Hat by Hat. Adult converts don't seem to carry all that guilt baggage the rest of us are sometimes saddled with.
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The back cover of the Miles book has endorsements by both Phyllis Tickle and James Alison.
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