Phyllis Tickle
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Phyllis Natalie Alexander May 12, 1934 Johnson City, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | September 22, 2015 (aged 81) Millington, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, lecturer |
| Years active | 1972–2015 |
| Spouse(s) | Samuel Tickle, Sr. (m. 1955) |
| Children | Seven |
Phyllis Natalie Tickle (née Alexander; March 12, 1934 – September 22, 2015) 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."
Phyllis Tickle was born on March 12, 1934, to Philip Wade Alexander, dean of East Tennessee State University, and Katherine Ann Porter Alexander. On June 17, 1955, she married Samuel Milton Tickle, Sr., a prominent pulmonologist who died in January 2015 after a long illness. The couple had seven children, and Tickle continued to make her home near Millington, Tennessee, on The Farm in Lucy, where many of Tickle's stories are set.
Tickle died on September 22, 2015, months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. She was 81.
Tickle studied for three years at Shorter University and received her BA from East Tennessee State University in 1955. She was appointed Fellow of the University by Furman University, receiving an MA degree from that institution in 1961.
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