Phyllis Tickle is founding editor of the Religion Department of Publishers Weekly. One of the most respected authorities and popular speakers on religion in America today, she is often quoted and interviewed in such media outlets as the New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, CNN, C-SPAN, and PBS. A lay eucharist minister in the Episcopal Church and a senior fellow of Cathedral College at the National Cathedral in Washington, she is the author of more than two dozen books, including The Divine Hours prayer manuals; The Words of Jesus: A Gospel of the Sayings of Our Lord and, most recently, Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters.