Baker Publishing Group Author Phyllis Tickle Dies Contact: Lynnae Lubbers (616)676-9185 x193 llubbers@bakerpublishinggroup.com Ada, Mich. (September 25, 2015)—Phyllis Tickle passed away on Tuesday, September 22, at her home near Memphis, TN. She was eighty-one years old. In May Tickle had announced that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer.  Tickle was the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly. She authored nearly forty books, including three books with Baker Publishing Group: Emergence Christianity, The Great Emergence, and The Age of the Spirit….