19 Facts About Phyllis Tickle

Phyllis Natalie Tickle was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues.

Phyllis Tickle is well known as a leading voice in the emergence church movement.

Phyllis Tickle 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 Tickle was a member of the Episcopal Church, where she was licensed as both a lector and a lay eucharistic minister.

Phyllis Tickle 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.

Phyllis Tickle was born on March 12,1934, to Philip Wade Alexander, dean of East Tennessee State University, and Katherine Ann Porter Alexander.

The couple had seven children, and Phyllis Tickle continued to make her home near Millington, Tennessee, on The Farm in Lucy, where many of Phyllis Tickle's stories are set.

Phyllis Tickle died on September 22,2015, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

Phyllis Tickle studied for three years at Shorter University and received her BA from East Tennessee State University in 1955.

Phyllis Tickle was appointed Fellow of the University by Furman University, receiving an MA degree from that institution in 1961.

Phyllis Tickle began her career as a Latin teacher in the Memphis public schools.

Phyllis Tickle then taught at Furman University and Rhodes College, before being appointed Dean of Humanities at the Memphis College of Art.

In 1972 Phyllis Tickle transitioned from teaching to writing and editing.

Phyllis Tickle worked as the managing editor and senior editor for St Luke's Press, then the senior editor for Peachtree Publishers.

Phyllis Tickle was the Director of the Trade Publishing Group for the Wimmer Companies from 1987 until 1990.

In 1991, Phyllis Tickle launched PW religion department, as "religion publishing was becoming a force to be reckoned with" and she remained with the magazine until 2004, when she resigned in order 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.

Phyllis Tickle's papers are archived at the Livingston Library at Shorter University.

From 2004 to her retirement from public life in 2015, Phyllis Tickle focused on writing and lecturing.