Phyllis A. Tickle, born on March 12, 1934 and died September 22, 2015 from lung cancer.
Phyllis was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues.
After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Phyllis entered the publishing industry, serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writer.
Phyllis is well known as a leading voice in the emergence 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.
Phyllis was a member of the Episcopal Church, where she was 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.
It has been said that “Over the past generation, no one has written more deeply and spoken more widely about the contours of American faith and spirituality than Phyllis Tickle.”