Q & A

March 11, 2013 Memphis writer Phyllis Tickle believes that Christianity—and specifically Protestantism in North America—is undergoing a cataclysmic shift. Buffeted by science, technology, politics, economics, and culture, the “faith of our fathers” appears to be facing obstacles undreamed of by previous generations. But according to Tickle and many other scholars, this has all happened before—several times. In The Great Emergence, newly released in paperback, Tickle examines the incredibly swift and often overwhelming changes of our own era. In her followup, Emergence Christianity, she narrows her focus to describe in detail the surprising new ways people have found of creating a church community in the twenty-first century.

February 28, 2013 Terry Tempest Williams was fifty-four years old when she began writing her newest memoir, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice, a book she began in response to her own mother’s death at age fifty-four. In it she tells the story of finding her mother’s journals—all blank—and contemplates the place of silence in a writer’s life. Williams will discuss When Women Were Birds at Parnassus Booksellers in Nashville on March 6 at 6:30 p.m.