1:00 p.m. Second Sunday Book Group

Second Sunday Book Group

Sunday, March 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

We’re reading “The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why” and “Emergence Christianity,” two short books by Phyllis Tickle. In a sweeping overview of church history Tickle shows that bout every 500 years the Church feels compelled to hold a giant rummage sale of ideas once held inviolable. The birth of Christianity from Judaism and the 16th C, Reformation with the Protestant Church emerging from Roman Catholicism are just two examples. But what emerges from these upheavals, although alarming then, has been a new, vital and more widespread form of Christianity, this book argues. We’re at such a point now, Tickle writes, then goes on to discuss the multiple social and cultural changes that have led us to this point and what the new emergent Church may look like and where it may be headed. To join the zoom discussion, contact pmcelheran@comcast.net or deborahbrown2559@me.com.