Phyllis Tickle: A Life - Hardcover

Sweeney, Jon M.

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- Authorized text, initiated with Phyllis Tickle's active involvement - Covers the full range of her life and work By the time of her death in 2015, Phyllis Tickle was one of the most beloved and respected figures in American religious life, and her writing offers a unique combination of the down-to-earth, deep spirituality, and scholarship. In this comprehensive new volume, Jon Sweeney, official biographer of Tickle's literary estate, explores every aspect of her life, a more than 50-year legacy of poetry; plays; literary, spiritual, and historical/theological work; and advocacy. Himself an author and editor in the religion field, Sweeney examines Tickle's personal and professional roots, from her family, long marriage, and life on The Farm in Lucy, Tennessee, to early academic career and move into book publishing, where her role as founding editor of the Religion Department at Publishers Weekly influenced the growth of spiritual writing and interfaith understanding during the 1990s. Sweeney also looks at pivotal relationships with John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, and Brian McLaren, as well as her great influence on the increasing number who adopted fixed-hour prayer, the Episcopal Church as a whole, and the Emerging Church, for which she served as historian, forecaster, and champion. A look at her early, passionate advocacy for the LGBT community, lecture circuit controversies, and projects left unfinished completes the picture.

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Jon M. Sweeney is an independent scholar and one of religion s most respected writers. His recent books include The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation, which has been optioned by HBO, and The Enthusiast: When the Best Friend of Francis of Assisi Almost Destroyed What He Started. Jon also edited Phyllis Tickle: Essential Spiritual Writings, published just before Phyllis's death in 2015. He is the executive editor at Ave Maria Press in Notre Dame, IN, is married to Rabbi Michal Woll, has four kids, and lives in Milwaukee, WI. Jon and Phyllis were in active conversation with Church Publishing about co-authoring an early book in our Conversations series.

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It is entirely appropriate that Phyllis Tickle visionary, mystic, and obedient, orthodox Christian should be, in this masterful recounting of her life and work, at least as confusing as the Gospels. Phyllis, with her extravagantly unwarranted love and interest in virtually everyone she met; with her intimate suffering; with her adoring, frightened and frustrated friends, lived out in her specific female body the Incarnation. We are blessed to have had her among us, and blessed by Jon Sweeney s powerful book. --Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

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