{"id":337,"date":"2009-05-07T11:44:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/05\/how-would-you-introduce-phylli.html"},"modified":"2009-05-07T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T11:44:39","slug":"how-would-you-introduce-phylli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/05\/how-would-you-introduce-phylli.html","title":{"rendered":"How Would You Introduce Phyllis Tickle?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the question that I tweeted yesterday. And then last night, before her talk, I introduced her by reading the tweets that came in. A couple people have asked me to post them, so here they are:<\/i><\/p>\n

As much as she travels at her age, she is the Energizer Bunny of the Great Emergence!!!!<\/p>\n

I’d suggest that you introduce her as a Christian who truly lives out the teachings of Jesus in her interpersonal relationships as well as a scholar on the cutting edge of 21st century Emergent Christianity.\"phyllis<\/span> <\/p>\n

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She is someone who embodies the dictum of James 2:1-5 treating equally all those whom she meets as children of God.<\/p>\n

Phyllis reminds me of the oracle on the matrix.<\/p>\n

As the world’s smartest granma. Although that might get you slugged.<\/p>\n

Introduce her as the Stealth Bad Girl of the Episcopal church or this decades “NIXON in China”<\/p>\n

I once heard her introduced, by a male pastor, as “the kind of woman I’ve always wanted to be.”<\/p>\n

Phyllis Tickle, the Grand Dame of Emergence Christianity<\/p>\n

As the smartest women around.<\/p>\n

“Phyllis Tickle, the new National Coordinatrix of Emergent Village”<\/p>\n

“Phyllis Tickle, the Oracle of Emergence”<\/p>\n

“ladies & gents, the woman who introduced us to the phrase, ‘God is both the shit and the fan.'”<\/p>\n

How about something like: “Every 500 years a monumental phenomenon occurs in the genetics of females…”?<\/p>\n

Please tell them that she is responsible for a book of children’s prayers that i read every day with my 2 year old daughter, and I don’t know words powerful enough to express my gratitude.<\/p>\n

Phyllis Tickle, the brilliant, badass Grandmother that you always wished you had.<\/p>\n

I dream of some day being as smart as Phyllis. And as beautiful. And as prayerful. And as good. I’m not hopeful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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