After coming out of the closet, Tim Dillinger, Gospel and Soul recording artist, felt exiled from his southern home, cut off from his roots in Christian and Gospel music. Shunned by the audience base he worked hard to attain, he was forced to face the consequences of choosing to live his truth. New York City held out the promise of a new beginning and new musical opportunities. Despite a tour as part of a trio of soul vocalists and a run of sold-out shows in the city, Tim found himself confronting a soulless industry fueled by the dreams it destroyed. In a short span of time, several of his musical mentors and heroes died, leaving him bereft. As the trio struggled to balance singing with survival, conflict escalated to crisis. Tim retreated to a healing community in upstate New York where he could safely enter the dark night of the soul.

The Road Home To You: A Singer's Journey From Exile To Gospel

Literature & Fiction

Dillinger, Tim

Poetry

Imagination Fury Arts

Murder at the Rummage Sale

Before there were supermalls, before there were hordes stampeding for Black Friday bargains, there was...The Church of the Regeneration's Annual Fall Rummage Sale! September 1960. Kennedy and Nixon race for the presidency, and the Women of the Church of the Regeneration prepare as usual for the annual rummage sale under the imperious direction of their leader, the light-fingered Charlotte Crowley....Until she is found in the basement smothered by a bag of coats still wrapped in plastic from the drycleaners. Though the police initially rule the death an accident, Lucy Way, an older, not-quite-maiden lady with a mystical bent, has her doubts. She donated the coats and saw them to their proper department. How did they end up on top of Charlotte in the basement? Joining Lucy as amateur detectives: The Reverend Gerald Bradley, who reluctantly concedes that Charlotte makes a perfect murder victim. Who, among his errant flock, didn't want to murder Charlotte? Anne Bradley, the rector's mousy wife, a closet atheist, who is oddly flattered when she discovers her husband believes her capable of murder. Katherine Bradley, the minister's seven-year-old daughter, and her sworn blood-brother Frankie Lomangino Jr., whose ex-con father is an easy target for the official investigation. There is no dearth of suspects from the irascible organist, who guards a secret past and present, to a pious, pesky widow with a mad passion for the newly-bereaved widower. Amidst the juggernaut of the rummage sale, surrounded by a host of maddening and endearing parishioners, the self-appointed sleuths pursue the truth at their peril. "There had been murder done, and now they were all caught up in it willy-nilly, " thinks Lucy Way (please, no Miss Marple jokes!) "whether they liked it or not. If they were all in a detective novel, this would be the point at which Lucy would want to put the book down, although of course she never did. One had to going on grimly reading to find out who done it. But that was not why she read detective novels. She chose them for their miniature portrait of a world, their cast of eccentric characters..." In her debut mystery, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Cunningham delivers both gripping plot and characters drawn with humor, compassion and psychological depth. Readers who have experienced a small town church will recognize old friends--and nemeses. Those for whom such a setting is exotic, prepare to be initiated into the arcane mysteries of parish life. A mystery in the classic tradition, Murder at the Rummage Sale brings to fresh life the timeless quirks and contradictions of human nature, the comic and the poignant, the merciful--and the murderous.

Cunningham, Elizabeth

Genre Fiction

Best known for The Maeve Chronicles, a series of award-winning novels, featuring a feisty Celtic Magdalen, Elizabeth Cunningham turns her formidable imagination to another historical setting and a time-honored form, the mystery. Descended from generations of Episcopal Priests, in Murder at the Rummage Sale, Cunningham serves up a delicious roman a clef.  September 1960. Kennedy and Nixon race for the presidency, and the Women of the Church of the Regeneration prepare as usual for the annual rummage sale under the imperious direction of their leader, the light-fingered Charlotte Crowley….Until she is found in the basement smothered by a bag of coats still wrapped in plastic from the dry cleaners. Though the police initially rule the death an accident, Lucy Way, an older, not-quite-maiden lady with a mystical bent, has her doubts. She donated the coats and saw them to their proper department. How did they end up on top of Charlotte in the basement? Reluctantly rector Gerald Bradley concedes that Charlotte makes a perfect murder victim. Who didn’t want to murder her? Including his organist, the irascible German war refugee, Elsa Ebersbach; pesky, pious parishioner Mildred Thomson; and even his own wife, Anne, a quiet woman, locked in grief over the death of their son, whose rage smolders behind a dutiful exterior. But it is Frank Lomangino, the ex-con Gerald strong-armed the vestry into hiring as sexton, who is arrested for the crime.     When Anne discovers Gerald believes her capable of murder, she joins forces with Lucy in a perilous, amateur investigation. Unbeknownst to the adults, the most determined sleuths are Katherine Bradley, the minister’s seven-year-old daughter, and her sworn blood-brother, Frankie Lomangino, Jr.. Trespassing in the woods next door, the children witness something none of the grownups can imagine. Murder at the Rummage Sale presents a vivid depiction of a vanished world, full of period detail. Like all the best mystery novels, it brings to fresh life the timeless quirks and contradictions of human nature, the comic and the poignant, the merciful—and the murderous.

The Road Home To You: A Singer's Journey from Exile to Gospel

Biographies & Memoirs

The Goddess is returning! 
She takes shape in the hands of an Episcopal priest's shy, retiring wife. She invades the dreams of a grande dame who thinks women priests are a scandal. She lures a poker-playing ex-convict onto unfamiliar terrain, literally. Then there is the mysterious old man in the wood, who's been watching, waiting for a sign of her return. 
Who is the Goddess? Where has she been for so long? What does she want from the four human beings whose lives she is turning upside down and inside out?
 As they confront these questions, Esther, Spencer, Marvin and Fergus find themselves drawn together, forging friendships across boundaries of age, class and race, discovering--and recovering--powerful, erotic passions. All their encounters, with themselves and each other, lead them deeper into Blackwood, an old estate that shelters an imperiled grove of trees sacred to the Goddess, a grove it becomes their mission to save. 
The Return of the Goddess, A Divine Comedy marks Cunningham's first explicit exploration of Christianity and the power of a divine feminine, long forgotten, obscured, and suppressed by the Church. She went on to write The Maeve Chronicles, featuring her iconic, outspoken Celtic Magdalen. The Return of the Goddess and her most recent novel, Murder at the Rummage Sale, take the reader inside the world of Cunningham's origins where a gap in a wall leads from the church to the sacred grove. 
Twenty-five years after its first publication The Return of the Goddess, A Divine Comedy remains a classic in what has become a movement, both within established religions and beyond, to reclaim the goddess and to embody her return.

The Return of the Goddess: A Divine Comedy [25th Anniversary Edition]

In 1990, novelist Elizabeth Cunningham found herself engaged with an outspoken, irreverent, hand-drawn character who called herself Madge and demanded her own book of cartoons. Together, Madge and Elizabeth graphically (in every sense!) protested the first Gulf War, and The Book of Madge took form. This collaboration led them to write The Maeve Chronicles, a series of award-winning novels featuring a feisty Celtic Magdalen. In November 2016 Madge Returns, taking a flying leap into the 21st century, landing more or less on her feet, or at any rate collapsing on the bed in the blue-striped bathrobe that has traversed the centuries.... Now, for the first time, Maeve fans can meet her as Madge in her contemporary, pictorial form. Madge, Magdalen, Maeve, she is the same, outrageous, Madgical being. And if you have never met her before, here she is in all her (naked) glory!

The Book of Madge

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Enter the world of The Wild Mother--modern fairytale, bold biblical midrash, filled with the psychological depth and imaginative originality for which the author of The Maeve Chronicles is known. This 25th anniversary edition of Elizabeth Cunningham's classic feminist novel is as fresh and timeless today as when it was first released to critical acclaim. Adam Underwood and Eva Brooke appear to be made for each other. Both are single parents. Both are academics, he a dazzling, enigmatic professor of Alchemy, she a humble but dedicated professor of Fairytales. Adam's children, Ionia and Fred, share a latchkey after school with Eva's precocious son, Jason. So why don't Adam and Eva marry and live happily ever after? Eva can't help wondering. Pathologically polite, she cannot bring herself to ask personal questions. She struggles not to find it strange that Adam has never so much as mentioned his children's absent mother. Nor has Adam's own mother-cum-housekeeper, the feisty, outspoken Ursula, ever uttered her name. Yet Eva glimpses the missing woman in ten-year-old Ionia's haunted and haunting purple eyes and in Ionia's drawings of a woman dancing on the crest of a hill, wild black hair spread out against the sky.... Then one night, she returns: Lilith, the wild mother. The precarious status quo that Eva, Adam, and their families have achieved is shattered and their world is turned inside out or, more precisely, outside in. As wild breaks into their lives, Adam, obsessed with control, attempts to seal them all in a deadly trap. Now a crucial challenge confronts each one of them. Will these very human beings embrace their own wildness, risking all they value and understand? Or will they deny the freedom essential to Lilith's nature--and their own.

The Wild Mother

Elizabeth Cunningham

All the Perils of This Night

All The Perils of This Night

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The Road Home To You: A Singer's Journey From Exile To Gospel

Murder at the Rummage Sale

Murder at the Rummage Sale

The Road Home To You: A Singer's Journey from Exile to Gospel

The Return of the Goddess: A Divine Comedy [25th Anniversary Edition]

The Return of the Goddess: A Divine Comedy [25th Anniversary Edition]

The Book of Madge

The Wild Mother

All The Perils of This Night

All the Perils of This Night