I have a complicated relationship with communion.
I wish I didn't feel compelled to be this level of honest while introducing this month's selection Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles. When I started thinking about how to sum up the themes in Take This Bread, there was no escaping communion. It takes center stage in Sara Miles’ conversion story and subsequent mission to begin a food pantry at her church. It is a beautiful, unconventional memoir and it all- all- circles back to the Table.
There’s no getting around it.
While I have many friends who have a complicated relationship with the church, many of them say the Eucharist is the reason they’re still Christians. I envy what communion means to them...
