ISBN: 9780983358985
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cunningham, Elizabeth, 1953-
Bright dark Madonna : a novel / by Elizabeth Cunningham.
p. cm. -- (The Maeve chronicles; 3)
eISBN 9780983358985
1. Mary Magdalene, Saint--Fiction. 2. Women priests--Fiction. 3. Jesus Christ--Fiction. 4. Religious fi ction. I. Title.
PS3553.U473B75 2009
813’.54--dc22
2009001105
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Table of Contents
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BRIGHT DARK MADONNA PRAISE FOR THE MAEVE CHRONICLES OTHER NOVELS BY ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM Title Page Copyright Page A note on reading this book Or this is not your mother’s Mary Magdalen PROLOGUE: MY FEAST DAY - How to Become a Saint PART ONE - THE PENTECOSTAL ALLEY BLUES
CHAPTER ONE - FAILURE CHAPTER TWO - MY THREE FATES CHAPTER THREE - LEVIRATE OR HOW TO SALVAGE A LINEAGE CHAPTER FOUR - WHAT MEN ARE FOR CHAPTER FIVE - TWO OR THREE TOGETHER CHAPTER SIX - IN WHICH MA AND I ARE INTRODUCED TO THE ECCLESIA CHAPTER SEVEN - BRING FORTH THAT WHICH IS WITHIN YOU CHAPTER EIGHT - TRUE CONFESSIONS CHAPTER NINE - WHITHER THOU GOEST
CHAPTER TEN - MY PEOPLE CHAPTER ELEVEN - COUNTING DOWN CHAPTER TWELVE - BLACK DOVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN - SIEGE CHAPTER FOURTEEN - HOLY HUBBUB CHAPTER FIFTEEN - IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY CHAPTER SIXTEEN - BRAWL CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - WHEN TWO ARE GATHERED CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - OUR LADY OF EXILE
CHAPTER NINETEEN - THE THREE CHAPTER TWENTY - WHERE IS MY DA? CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - BEDTIME STORIES CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - LIFE GOES ON CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - THE DELEGATION CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - BLOOD CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - THE LEAST OF MY BRETHREN CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - IN HIS NAME CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - FATHER AND SON CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - PREACHER MAN CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - RELUCTANT CAMP FOLLOWER CHAPTER THIRTY - REVELATIONS
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - GUIDE MY FEET CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - A LAUNDRESS FOR CHRIST CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - OF FOOD AND FORESKINS CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - CONTRARY MARYS CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - TELL ME THE TRUTH! CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX - THE LORD’S SON CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - TELL MY MOTHER! CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT - FIT TO BE TIED CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE - THE WIND BLOWS WHERE IT WILL CHAPTER FORTY - AT SEA
PART FIVE: HYMN TO MA OF EPHESUS
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE - LOOSE CANON CHAPTER FORTY-TWO - THE MEETING CHAPTER FORTY-THREE - EPHESUS AND GREATER EPHESUS CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR - MERYEMANA CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE - ADVICE CHAPTER FORTY-SIX - OLD AQUAINTANCE CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN - BELOVED DISCIPLE CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT - HOLY OF HOLIES CHAPTER FORTY-NINE - MUST IT BE WRITTEN? CHAPTER FIFTY - IT IS WRITTEN CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE - JESUS OUR MOTHER
