Tickle Papers

by Phyllis Tickle

In the poignant, laugh-filled tradition of Erma Bombeck, this book will 'tickle' your funny bones as it warms your heart and dances delightfully across your memory. 'The Tickle Papers' offers stories about how life instructs the soul and persuades it to faith. There stories are modern-day parables that illustrate some of the epiphanies that have informed this family's understanding of the Christian faith.

140 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Phyllis Natalie Tickle was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues. After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Tickle entered the publishing industry, serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writer. She 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. Tickle 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." A biography of Tickle, written by Jon M. Sweeney, was published in February 2018. Phyllis Tickle: A Life (Church Publishing, Inc), has been widely reviewed.

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

funny!