Phyllis Tickle

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Phyllis Tickle

Phyllis Tickle (born March 12, 1934) is an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religious issues. After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Tickle entered the publishing industry, serving as an editor at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writer. She is well known as a leading voice in the emerging church movement. She is perhaps best known for The Divine Hours series of books, published by Doubleday Press, and her book The Great Emergence- How Christianity Is Changing and Why. Tickle is a member of the Episcopal Church, where she is licensed as both a Lector and a Lay Eucharistic Minister. She has been widely-quoted by many media outlets, including Newsweek, Time, Life, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, C-SPAN, PBS, The History Channel, the BBC and VOA.[1]

Personal life

Phyllis Tickle was born on March 12, 1934, to Philip Wade Alexander, dean of East Tennessee State University and Katherine Ann Porter Alexander. On June 17, 1955, she married Samuel Milton Tickle,Sr., a prominent pulmonologist. The couple have seven children and continue to make their home in Western Tennessee on The Farm in Lucy, where many of Tickle's stories are set.

Education

Tickle studied at Shorter University and received her BA from East Tennessee State University in 1955. She was appointed Fellow of the University by Furman University, receiving an MA degree from that institution in 1961.

Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University awarded her the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2004; and she received a second such degree from North Park University in 2009.

Career

She began her career as a Latin teacher in the Memphis Public Schools (1955-1957). Tickle then taught at Furman University (1960-1962) and Rhodes College (1962-1965), before being appointed Dean of Humanities at the Memphis College of Art (1965-1971).

In 1972 Tickle transitioned from teaching to writing and editing. She worked as the managing editor (1975-1982) and senior editor (1982-1987) for St. Luke's Press, then the senior editor for Peachtree Publishers (1987-1989). She was the Director of the Trade Publishing Group for the Wimmer Companies from 1987 until 1990, when she decided to spend more time on her own writing. In 1991, however, she was recruited by Publishers Weekly to found a religion division for them, and she served in various roles there until 2004, when she resigned her post to devote more time to her work with Emergence thought in general, and Emergence Christianity in particular.

Phyllis Tickle served as Fellow of the Cathedral College at the National Cathedral in Washington for three years prior to its closing in 2009. She was founding president of the Publishers Association of the South in 1984-85 and was re-elected for an additional term in 1985-86 In 1996, she received the publishing industry’s Mays Award in recognition of lifetime achievement in writing and in publishing, and specifically in recognition of her work in gaining mainstream media coverage of religion publishing. In 2007, she was the recipient of the prestigious Life-Time Achievement Award from The Christy Awards “…in gratitude for a lifetime as an advocate for fiction written to the glory of God.” She serves presently, as she has in the past, on a number of advisory and corporate boards. Tickle’s papers are archived at the Livingston Library at Shorter University.

Since 2004, Tickle has focused on writing and speaking. She has authored 36 books, and most recently has become a leading expert on, and advocate of, the emerging church movement. She is such a force in world religion that, in 2007, the Italian painter, Mario Donizetti, a leading figure in contemporary art, published ''Lettera a Phyllis'', to honor their friendship. In which volume he presents some of his more recent theories of aesthetics and the groundlessness, for him, of artistic informalism, in view of the most recent discoveries about the human brain. Phyllis has even been said to be "to religious publishing what Walter Cronkite is to journalism." [2]

Bibliography

  • Emergence Christianity – What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters (Baker Books, 2012)
  • Embracing Emergence Christianity (with Tim Scorer) – Six-Session DVD (Church Publishing, 2011)
  • The Doorway (Liturgical Drama, first production, 2010)
  • The Great Emergence – How Christianity is Changing and Why (Baker Books, 2008)
  • The Words of Jesus – A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord with Reflections (Jossey-Bass, 2008)
  • The “Seven Ancient Practices” Series, General Editor (Thomas Nelson, 2008)
  • This Is What I Pray Today – The Divine Hours for Children (Dutton for Young Readers, 2007)
  • The Pocket Edition of – The Divine Hours (Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • The Night Office – Prayers for the Hours from Sunset to Sunrise (Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Prayer Is A Place – America’s Religious Landscape Observed (Doubleday, 2005)
  • Greed (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • The Graces We Remember (Loyola Press, 2004)
  • Wisdom in the Waiting (Loyola Press, 2004)
  • Eastertide – Prayers for Lent and Easter from The Divine Hours (Doubleday, 2004)
  • What the Land Already Knows (Loyola Press, 2003)
  • Christmastide – Prayers for Advent through Epiphany from The Divine Hours (Doubleday, 2003)
  • A Stitch and A Prayer (Paraclete Press, 2003)
  • The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime (Doubleday, 2003)
  • The Shaping of A Life – A Spiritual Landscape (Doubleday, 2001)
  • The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime (Doubleday, 2000)
  • The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime (Doubleday, 2000)
  • God-Talk In America (Crossroad, 1997(
  • HomeWorks, General Editor (University of Tennessee Press, 1996)
  • My Father’s Prayer: A Remembrance (Upper Room Books, 1995)
  • Re-Discovering the Sacred: Spirituality in America (Crossroads, 1995)
  • Confessing Conscience: Churched Women on Abortion, General Editor and Contributor (Abingdon Press, 1990)
  • The Tickle Papers (Abingdon Press, 1989)
  • Ordinary Time: Stories of the Days Between Ascensiontide and Advent (Upper Room Books, 1988)
  • What the Heart Already Knows: Stories for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany (Upper Room Books, 1985)
  • Selections (Erasmus Books of Notre Dame, 1983)
  • The City Essays (The Dixie Flyer Press, 1982)
  • Puppeteers for Our Lady (Liturgical Drama, first production, 1982)
  • On Beyond Koch (St. Luke's Press, 1981)
  • American Genesis (St. Luke's Press, 1976)
  • The Story of Two Johns (St. Luke's Press, 1976)
  • Figs and Fury (Liturgical Drama, first production, 1976)
  • It's No Fun to Be Sick (The Academy Press, 1972)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.explorefaith.org/bio.tickle.html
  2. ↑ "No Nation is Christian" by Becky Garrison, The Wittenburg Door, November 29, 2007


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