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New Phyllis Tickle Interview

Posted May 8, 12:32 PM | 0 comments | by Steve Knight | Link

Zach Roberts has a new audio interview with Phyllis Tickle up today over at the Dogwood Abbey website. In it, Tickle talks primarily about spiritual practices.

Rose Marie Berger has a post up this morning on the God’s Politics blog talking about Tickle’s upcoming book The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. Berger writes, “Emerging Christianity, posits Tickle, brings together — rather than divides — the best practices of the Christian traditions, practices that have been divided in the church and held within denominations for 500 years. It also looks back at ancient church practices and tries to apply them in fresh ways in the post-modern era.”

Berger points to Brian McLaren, Rowan Williams, Karen Ward (of Anglimergent), the New Monastics, and the Sojourners community as other examples of those “who are keeping our rosebush tended.” (Note: You probably have to understand Tickle’s presentation on the “great emergence” to get the rose reference.)

UPDATE 5/9/2008: There is a rumored “Great Emergence” event being organized in Tickle’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, for the weekend of December 5-6. More details to follow …

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