Desert Wells - Softcover

Alice Bates

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0232527903 ISBN 13: 9780232527902

Publisher: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2011

A collection of original short stories based around particular themes such as slowing down, listening, forgiving. These stories explore aspects of our humanity, and encourage us into a better understanding of ourselves and of those around us. The stories have been inspired by Scripture, but are set in contemporary culture, and each illustrates some aspect of loving or failing to love. They seek to throw some light on what stops us loving others and how we might grow in love, so that, as we think about the characters and the situations they find themselves in, as we apply to our own lives their troubles and their solutions, we may begin to see ourselves and those around us in a new light: precious, holy and full of possibility. Each story has been written to stand by itself without the passage of Scripture which it illustrates, but for each one there are notes and questions in a separate appendix for those who wish to use the book in home groups or for individual study.

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About the Author:

Alice Bates was brought up in Mexico but was a schoolgirl in England, and studied modern languages at Oxford University. She is a Church of England Reader and an oblate of St Mary s Abbey, West Malling. She is married to Steven Bates, former Religious Affairs correspondent of the Guardian newspaper where he still works, and they have three teenaged children.

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