It is interesting that I have written so much about this book. There are many other books which definitely have impacted me more, though I never wrote much, if about at all about them. With that said, there is one last idea which Phyllis Tickle brings up in her book The Great Emergence, which I [...]

Brian McLauren has posted a few short videos which talk about The Great Emergence and the up coming conference focused on the book. One is an interview of Phyllis Tickle by Doug Pagitt, the other a short promo type piece (for the book).

Most of what Phyllis Ticke discussed in her book The Great Emergence was very enlightening in perspective, tying so many different ideas and movements into such a larger narrative. She was very graceful in her attitude of neutrality towards her/my/our history. It seems that she worked very hard to keep an nonjudgmental attitude towards it all. [...]

By way of reading Tickle’s book The Great Emergence I came across a very interesting cross-pollination of sorts. There is a connection of ideas between the Pentecostals and Kierkegaard—I’m not sure if the founders of Pentecostalism had read Kierkegaard, but it sure would be interesting research to find out their influences for their ideas—both believe [...]

I recently read Phyllis Tickle’s newest book The Great Emergence. It is a short quick read, really only evaluating a single premise, but the subject is very enlightening, even in its simplicity. The basic thesis is that that every five hundred years there is some sort re-formation within the church, a giant rummage sale as [...]