I am just about finished with Phyllis Tickle’s most recent book, The Great Emergence, and I have found it fascinating. Tickle will be at St. Nick’s next Fall, and I hope we can do a Parish Study Group on at least this book and perhaps another.
The book talks about what she sees as huge changes in Christianity, analogous to those in the 5th, 10th, and 16th centuries (you see the pattern here), and connected with the huge social and intellectual challenges of the last century or so.
If she is even close to right, the implications are enormous for places like Saint Nicholas’, which is trying to find a faithful way to be the church is a world that is shifting around us in all sorts of ways. If you would like to read and discuss the book, please enter a comment below and we can begin.