Care for Our Souls in Sacred Activism: A Discussion of “Take This Bread” by Sara Miles

Reclaiming the Garden

In this episode, Anna and April draw from our respective academic disciplines (social work and theology) and Sara Miles’ memoir Take This Bread to discuss strategies for how to sustain ourselves in the work of healing and justice, including neurodivergent-friendly alternatives to meditation. Sara Miles’ connection to bodily spiritual experience, her conviction that her “body was connected literally and mysteriously to other bodies and loved without reason” and the grace she experienced through communion led her to start a food pantry through her church that empowered the people who came there to engage in it themselves, to feed others as they had been fed–it’s a story of creating beauty and justice in the midst of the messiness of community. April and Anna also reflect on what we’ve learned in grad school so far.

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