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Phyllis Tickle

Phyllis Tickle (www.phyllistickle.com) is the founding editor of the religion department of Publishers Weekly and author of The Words of Jesus: A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord and the forthcoming fall release, The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why.

Blog Posts by Phyllis Tickle

A Brief Observation on Your First Morning as President-Elect
Posted by Phyllis Tickle 4 years 28 weeks ago
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The Last Story of Summer
Posted by Phyllis Tickle 4 years 34 weeks ago
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Once Upon a Time There Was a House...
Posted by Phyllis Tickle 4 years 35 weeks ago
Once upon a time there was a house... Anything that begins with such words as that usually carries with it the implicit promise that a tale is about to be told. "Once upon a time" rarely is a...
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Hyphenated Emergents
Posted by Phyllis Tickle 4 years 36 weeks ago
I am going to preach this morning. Actually, in all probability I will be preaching by the time you read this. I will not be away from home in some alien pulpit, though, but at home in my own parish...
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New Life from an Old Hymn
Posted by Phyllis Tickle 4 years 37 weeks ago
Christ Episcopal Church in Ponte Vedra, Florida, is the kind of church every pastor, rector, or preacher dreams of. It’s got children running about everywhere. It’s building yet another...
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Articles by Phyllis Tickle

The Great Emergence
August 1, 2008

Every 500 years or so, the church—and the world—experience huge social, political, economic, and cultural shifts. What does this revolutionary evolution mean for the church?

Faithful Transitions
August 1, 2008

Phyllis Tickle talks with Becky Garrison, senior contributing writer for The Wittenburg Door and author of Rising from the Ashes: Rethinking Church, about how to deal with the seismic shifts occurring in Christ­ianity.

The People Of The Books
December 1, 2004

The written word isn't going away anytime soon, and religion's effect on the publishing industry is part of the reason.