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🗓️ 17 September 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Sara Miles was an atheist. Then one day, out of idle curiosity, she wandered into a church, had a bite of bread and a sip of wine and God came crashing into her life. Her response was to take the principles of communion and set up a food distribution centre around the altar of her church for anyone and everyone to enjoy. So tune in for some fascinating insights into what it means to eat at God's table.Â
“I think the way that communion changes everything is precisely because of the universality and the catholicity of it – that it’s impossible to have this meal by yourself. This is the only meal in the world you can’t buy and you can’t eat it alone. So, all the business of religion that’s about exclusion or boundaries or drawing lines is subverted by this meal that’s offered for free to people who don’t deserve it, to people who aren’t prepared for it.” - Sara Miles
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0:20.2 | Yeah. |
0:20.8 | How's your greenbelt experience panning out the weather's weird |
0:22.9 | isn't it yeah it is very on enough isn't it kind of a bit chilly and cloudy and a bit rainy and suddenly |
0:28.6 | we're plunged back into the depths of summer yeah yeah plus i'm very tired tim you are very tired |
0:34.1 | you and i are so different ward i'll tell you for you, for two reasons. One, you're wearing shorts. |
0:39.4 | I'm wearing most of the clothes I own. |
0:42.4 | The other, I've booked a hotel for tonight. |
0:44.8 | Where did you sleep last night, all right? |
0:47.5 | Well, we came off holiday yesterday, and I didn't fancy getting up early to come here today so I thought I'll sleep in my van |
0:57.3 | as you do yeah that's the kind of thing you're doing your 19 I know well I sometimes think I still |
1:02.6 | am 19 yeah a little bit of adventure let's see what it's like and your adventure just equaled |
1:08.1 | no sleep wasn't a good idea I got less sleep than I would have done if I'd stayed at home and just got up early. |
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1:28.8 | surrounded by what is in the back of the van? |
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