Patricia Said Adams use The Bible as her inspiration to write and continue her passion on spiritual novels.
LONDON – 27 March 2023
Patricia Said Adams is a spiritual director, a supervisor of spiritual directors, a blogger and an author of four books. She writes through the lens of a spiritual director: How do I, how do we, live this life in Christ? She has three grown children and nine grandchildren all of whom she adores. She lives in Matthews, North Carolina, USA.
She has written her blog, By the Waters, since 2008, and has authored four books since 2015: Thy Kingdom Come!, Exodus: Our Story, Too!, A Study Guide to the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount, and Called to Help the Poor and Needy. Currently, she is writing a book with the working title, “The One Church of Jesus Christ.”
What book are you planning to read next?
I’m going to reread Desmond Tutu’s book, God is not a Christian, as I continue on my current project.
Who are your favorite writers?
In fiction I love Louise Penny because of the beautiful books she had written about a small Canadian town near the U.S. border.
I mostly read Christian and other spiritual writers as research for my books. I love Brian McLaren, and Jim Wallis. For my current book I’ve read some very good Native American writers: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Joseph M. Marshall III, and Wahinkpe Topa and Dacia Narvaez, Asian-American writer Soong-Chan Rah and several African American authors: Howard Thurman, Ibram X. Kendi, Barbara A. Holmes, and Jemar Tisby.
What do I read when I’m working on a book?
The Bible is my main source, but for my current project, I have read more than thirty different authors as I researched how the American churches are doing and what they could improve.
What genres do I especially enjoy reading?
Mystery, mystery, mystery! Everything from Agatha Christie to P. D. James to Ruth Rendell to Dorothy Sayers and Louise Penny.
What moves me most in a work of literature?
I love the interactions among the characters, plus the growth of the main characters through volume after volume, like in the Louise Penny novels.
