{"id":1131,"date":"2007-05-25T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/we-call-her-mary-mags.html"},"modified":"2007-05-25T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T10:14:00","slug":"we-call-her-mary-mags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/we-call-her-mary-mags.html","title":{"rendered":"We Call her Mary Mags"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by <\/font>Dr. Susan Corso<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait till I reach 150. It won\u2019t be long. I\u2019m already up to 148. Someone just has to write them. I\u2019m talking about books about Mary Magdalene. Some of us have been onto her for decades. We call her Mary Mags at home.<\/p>\n

Foolish consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds (Ralph Waldo Emerson), I want to recommend a delicious, modern, go-away-and-hide-in-another-world novel by <\/font>Elizabeth Cunningham<\/font><\/a> called <\/font>\u201cThe Passion of Mary Magdalen.\u201d<\/font><\/a> Yes, Virginia, that\u2019s how she spells it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a romp, a rant, a rave about a Celtic version of Mary Mags named Maeve that will make you laugh out loud because of her sheer audacity, brilliant intellect, and passionate commitment. Here are the first few words from the dust jacket:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a Passion Story: my passion, his passion, ours\u2014yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Passion is good. Actually, passion in life is a requirement. Cunningham\u2019s redheaded Maeve is an already-built-and-walked-over-the-bridge character. This is the delightful advantage of fiction. Truth, however, being so often stranger than fiction (Mark Twain), a caveat is in order. Although a named, incarnate, modern Magdalene hasn’t come forward, I consider Cunningham a visionary, to wit: someone is envisioning her, so, by the nature of vision, she could happen, or better, she might be happening even now.<\/p>\n

Another bonus: there\u2019s a prequel! (When I went on her website, I thought she\u2019d written another one and jumped for joy, but alas… no.) It\u2019s called <\/font>\u201cMagdalene Rising: The Beginning\u201d<\/font><\/a> or, in its earlier incarnation, \u201cDaughter of the Shining Isles,\u201d and, there\u2019s a sequel in the works with the working title \u201cBright Dark Madonna,\u201d promised in the endpages of the second in the trilogy. Series which follow a character are some of my favorites. (Try <\/font>Harry Potter<\/font><\/a> or <\/font>Diana Gabaldon<\/font><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Mary Mags has enraptured scholars for a long time. It\u2019s when the artists in society begin to embrace an image that we know true change is coming. Art is always ahead of pack. Let me just put it this way: Were I to write a novel about Mary Mags, this is one I would want to write.
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