Hello Interfaithers Elizabeth Cunningham, new member, introducing myself

[Elizabeth Cunningham]

Dear Fellow Interfaithers,

I am new to this online community and was kindly invited to join by Sam Basso. Delaine has invited me to submit blog posts when I write on interfaith subjects--hard not to do when you're an interfaith minister. I graduated and was ordained from The New Seminary in New York in 1997. Hello, fellow NS graduates! Since then I have been a counselor in private practice. I am hoping to do hospital and hospice chaplaincy training this Fall.

What I have been doing much longer (almost forever, over 30 years anyway) is writing novels, most of them reflecting my theological obsessions, which I come by naturally, being descended from generations of Episcopal Priests. In fact my first memory is a theological one. I had a plot to kill God and Jesus. (The Holy Ghost I had confused with Caspar). Since then I have become more non-violent in my approach to religion and for the last more than twenty years my novels, beginning with The Return of the Goddess, A Divine Comedy, reflect my deep longing to integrate my experience of the divine feminine with my Christian roots.

Since 1991 I have been working on The Maeve Chronicles, a series of novels featuring the feisty Celtic Mary Magdalen who is no one's disciple. Magdalen Rising, The Passion of Mary Magdalen, and Bright Dark Madonna have all been published. You can learn more about them at www.passionofmarymagdalen.com. And I am at work on a fourth and final volume, working title Red-Rpbed Priestess.

I am also still something of a Luddite who cannot quite believe she has entered the blogosphere and twitterdom Elizabeth Cunningham (EliznMaeve) on Twitter. I seem to be on a perpetual learning curve when it comes to technology. I do value the people I meet online and the rich exchange of ideas. I have to limit my social networking sometimes in order to write!

I look forward to being part of this community and will be submitting some posts on interfaith subjects to Delaine today.

Blessed Bees (as we say at High Valley. Oops forgot to mention that. You can check us out here www.highvalley.org )

Elizabeth Cunningham

[Sam]

Very good introduction Elizabeth, glad to have you here. We're looking forward to your blog posts and to hear of your interfaith experiences so we can learn more. There are already a few people here from The New Seminary, you might know one of them, we will see. Feel free to invite any others that will enjoy this place. More interfaithers to come!

[Delaine]

Welcome Elizabeth It's great to have you here! We have a group page for the New Seminary. You can join it here: http://www.interfaithing.com/groups/new-seminary/

[Elizabeth Cunningham]

Thanks so much, Sam!