How I would love to go and sit in a church or other place of sanctuary and meditation today and work my prayer beads. Good Friday has always been one of my favorite days in the church calendar. Is that weird? It is such a somber day. I think it is among my favorites because [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Phyllis Tickle on January 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Earlier this week, I wrote a post about an interview I had with Phyllis Tickle about her forthcoming book “The Words of Jesus,” in which she strips the Gospels and the Book of Acts of narration and context to leave the words of Jesus. Just the words of Jesus. As I said in my previous [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Phyllis Tickle on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I recently interviewed Phyllis Tickle for Publishers Weekly magazine’s online newsletter, Religion BookLine. You can read the brief interview here, and in a future post will include the interview in its entirety.
The subject of the interview is Tickle’s new book, The Words of Jesus, in which she lifts the words of Jesus from the narrative [...]
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