Phyllis Tickle: 23 books
The Divine Hours (Volume Three): Prayers for Springtime
A Manual for Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
The third and final volume in a trilogy of prayer manuals compiled by Publishers Weekly religion editor Phyllis Tickle as a contemporary Book of Hours to guide Christians gently yet authoritatively through the daily offices.
The Divine Hours is the first major literary and liturgical reworking...
The Liturgical Year
The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November, is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
What may at first seem to...
A Letter to My Congregation
An evangelical pastor's path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender into the company of Jesus.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
"This is a breakthrough work coming from the heart of evangelical Christianity and offered into the heart of evangelical Christianity," writes David P. Gushee, the prolific Christian author and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. In describing this book,...
The Age of the Spirit
How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy Is Shaping the Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A thousand years ago, the church experienced a time of tremendous upheaval called the Great Schism. The one faith became two churches, East and West, and the course of world history was forever changed. And it all swirled around one Latin word in the Nicene Creed, filioque, that indicated the Holy...
Tithing
Test Me in This
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
“‘Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.’” — Malachi 3:1 0
In these...
Sabbath
The Ancient Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
What would you do for twenty-four hours if the only criteria were to pursue your deepest joy?
Dan Allender’s lyrical book about the Sabbath expels the myriad myths about this “day of rest,” starting with the one that paints the Sabbath as a day of forced quiet, spiritual exercises, and...
by Robert Benson, Phyllis Tickle
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
What does it mean to pray without ceasing? Is it really that important to pray as the early Church did?
In this installment of The Ancient Practices series, Robert Benson presents a structure for our lives where we can live in continued awareness of God’s presence and reality. A pattern for...
Fasting
The Ancient Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
“Fasting is the body talking what the spirit yearns, what the soul longs for, and what the mind knows to be true.”
— Scot McKnight
Christianity has traditionally been at odds with the human body. At times in the history of the church, Christians have viewed the body and physical...
Greed
The Seven Deadly Sins
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Grasping. Avarice. Covetousness. Miserliness. Insatiable cupidity. Overreaching ambition. Desire spun out of control. The deadly sin of Greed goes by many names, appears in many guises, and wreaks havoc on individuals and nations alike. In this lively and generous book, Phyllis A. Tickle argues that...
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