About
Shelley Adina Bates holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, where she was adjunct faculty for 19 years, and is in her third year of work on a PhD in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in the UK. She is supervised by Professor John Schad of the English & Creative…
The Disciples
The Pacific Christian Divine Way was incorporated in 1918, with three directors: W. E. Riker, chairman Anna Schramm, secretary Irvin B. Fisher The community at that time numbered perhaps a dozen. By the 1930 census, 33 men and 8 women were recorded as living at Holy City: William E. Riker – 58, head Lucille Riker…
The Comforter—PhD thesis
The degree I’m working toward is a PhD in Creative Writing. But what is my dissertation about? Draft Abstract This two-part thesis begins with an 80,000-word novel entitled The Comforter – one of the names of the Holy Spirit in the Christian tradition, and one of the names appropriated by William E. Riker, the leader…