Publisher's Synopsis
In A Chicken Can Make a Difference, 34 ordinary Australians share their extraordinary stories of life and faith. This collection features the best writing from the 2016 Stories of Life Creative Writing Awards and provides a glimpse of the many ways in which God is at work in people's lives. We find here extraordinary accounts of conversion, answers to prayer, life-changing adventures, and of God's grace in dealing with illness and loss. A simple yet profound story called A Chicken Can Make a Difference sums up well the essence of this collection of stories about seemingly ordinary things, people and events that end up making an extraordinary difference when the grace of God is involved. Dr James Cooper is Director of the Writing Arts Research Centre at Tabor College of Higher Education, Adelaide, South Australia. He has published numerous poems and short stories and is especially interested in the Christian poetics developed by such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Flannery O'Connor. He lives in the Adelaide Hills with his wife and two sons and is working towards the publication of his first novel, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Text Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Dr Mark Worthing is pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide. He is the author of several books, most recently, Phantastes: George MacDonald's Classic Novel and Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of God: A History of Fantasy Literature and the Christian Tradition (both forthcoming, Morning Star Publishing) and Graeme Clark: The Man Who Invented the Bionic Ear. He lives with his family in Hahndorf, South Australia.
