Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt lavishes his high praise for Phyllis Tickle and her book The Great Emergence, “Phyllis Tickle is the best friend the emergent movement could ever have… Her books, from The Divine Hours to her memoirs, are essential reading.” Indeed Apprising Ministries notes there’s great excitement ’round Emergent Church circles these days about the way Phyllis tickles their ears.

So in this post we give you a bit of an introduction to religious pundit Phyllis Tickle as we turn over a few  rocks in scratching the surface Of Tickle’s quite questionable spiritual associations. After reading this piece you may be wondering along with me: Just what kind of faith is it that Phyllis Tickle has Pagitt and the Emergent Church so excited about because it most certainly is not the historic orthodox Christian faith.

But in today’s postevangelical Burger King “have it your way” version of the Christian faith that’s ok as long as you’re singing right along with Lennon and McCartney: “All you need is love.”