Sara Miles Interview

Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived a happy secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into an Episcopal church, took communion and was transformed. Before long, she turned the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church’s altar to be given away. Mile’s new book Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion is the story of that transformation. A former editor at Mother Jones magazine she is also the author of How to Hack a Party Line. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Progressive, La Jornada, and Salon. Recorded March 13, 2007