The Breakfast Before the Service

Every Sunday morning, First Avenue Community Church spent four hundred dollars on fresh flowers for the sanctuary. The arrangements were stunning — birds of paradise, white lilies, cascading greenery flanking the communion table. Meanwhile, a block and a half away, residents of the Garfield Heights apartments were skipping meals to cover rent. It was a deacon named Marcus who finally said it out loud during a board meeting: "We're decorating a table where we talk about the Bread of Life while our neighbors' kids go to school hungry."…