For All Who Hunger

Emily Scott never planned on becoming a pastor. But when she started a church for misfits that met over dinner in Brooklyn, she discovered an unlikely calling—and an antidote to modern loneliness."I absolutely devoured this exquisitely written memoir."—Nadia Bolz-Weber, New York Times bestselling author of Shameless As founding pastor of St. Lydia's in Brooklyn, New York, where worship takes place over a meal, Emily M. D. Scott spent eight years ministering to a scrappy collective of people with different backgrounds, incomes, and levels of social skills. Each week they broke bread, sang hymns, made halting conversation with strangers, then did the dishes. But in a city where everyone lives on top of one another yet everyone is lonely, these gatherings filled a longing that most people—even Scott—didn't realize they felt. With tenderness and humor, Scott weaves stories and reflections from the life of her unlikely...