The Great Emergence Event will Tickle Ears

~For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires~
2 Timothy 4:3 (NASB)

The book is called Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle. The big event (thegreatemergence.com/TheEvent) is called The Great Emergence, a one day conference that will take place in Winnipeg on October 31 (Halloween). It's being promoted as...

A BOOK...

AN EVENT...

A PHENOMENON...

The event consists of four main sessions with author/speaker Phyllis Tickle. In between these sessions, participants will also do the daily office (three daily times of scheduled prayer) based on a bestselling book called The Divine Hours (also by Phyllis Tickle).

Phyllis Tickle's bio says she is "the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, is one of the most highly respected authorities and popular speakers on religion in America today. She is the author of more than two dozen books on the subject, including the recently published The Words of Jesus: A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord and The Divine Hours, a series of manuals for observing fixed-hour prayer. A lector and lay eucharistic minister in the Episcopal Church, Tickle is a senior fellow of the Cathedral College of Washington National Cathedral. For more information, go to www.phyllistickle.com."

What is NOT mentioned in her bio is that Phyllis Tickle is also on the editorial board of Explore Faith (along with heretic Marcus Borg), which offers spiritual guidance for anyone seeking the path to God . See here:
www.explorefaith.org/about_us/editorial_board/index.php

Among those whom Explore Faith recommends as valued spiritual teachers are Guru Ram Dass, Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh, Sufi Muslim Rumi, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila and Thomas Merton.
See here:
www.explorefaith.org/faces_of_faith/saints_prophets_spiritual_guides/index.php

As you can see, the spirituality promoted by Phyllis Tickle is not even close to being true to the gospel of Jesus Christ. This is why the emerging church leaders who have strayed from the truth in God's Word love her books and things. Even so, many denominations that you would never suspect to be involved with this kind of interfaith spirituality are sponsoring The Great Emergence event with Phyllis Tickle. See event sponsors here (reader beware: you may be shocked):
http://www.faithforum.ca/GE/Sponsorshiplistlinks.html
http://www.mbconf.ca

For more info on the spirituality of Phyllis Tickle, see here:

A TREASURE WE DON’T UNDERSTAND—PHYLLIS TICKLE AT MARS HILL BIBLE CHURCH
apprising.org

CHRISTIANITY 21 AND ALLEGED INNOVATIVE VOICES IN THE FAITH: PHYLLIS TICKLE May 2009
apprising.org

The Great Emergence: A Reformation Every 500 Years?
Roger Oakland
www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com

PHYLLIS TICKLE: THE REFORMATION IS OVER AND REFORMERS HAVE NEW NAMES TODAY
apprising.org