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Love is stronger than death: My Mary Magdalene journey
Something I don’t often talk about is how I came to my interest in Mary Magdalene. For the most part I’ve believed that my own story doesn’t matter because I want to think and write about Mary Magdalene, not about myself. I have to admit though that my renewed interest in the topic has come… Continue reading
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Pamela Colman Smith and Noli Me Tangere
In the Twitter profile for this blog, I note that it is an exploration of Mary Magdalene in history, spirituality, culture, and the arts. Mary Magdalene is so embedded in the cultural history of the West that she often pops up in unexpected places, to my delight, and I’d like to dedicate this post to… Continue reading
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Elizabeth Schrader Polczer and the restoration of Mary Magdalene’s apostolic identity
Elizabeth Schrader Polczer, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Villanova University, is taking on some of the toughest questions about Mary Magdalene and making significant headway. In this post I’ll summarize her work as she described it in two fantastic podcasts. Continue reading
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Run, Mary, Run
For the last month I’ve been doing a bit of a survey of the books on my shelves, rereading some that I wanted to reacquaint myself with, starting to work through some that have been languishing unread, and thinking through some ideas that I’ve had simmering on the proverbial back burner. But I’ve also had… Continue reading
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This week in my brain: Old Syriac, the Fourth Gospel, Mary of Nazareth, and the Holy Grail
In the days since my last post, I’ve spent much of my time reading, both rereading material that I wanted to bring back to mind and trying to catch up on some of the scholarship in the years since I stopped paying attention. There has been a lot, and I feel like I’ve only scratched… Continue reading
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Reflections on the 20th anniversary of The Da Vinci Code
On April 1, 2003, Dan Brown published a novel that would take the world by storm, and ignite imaginations with the notion that Jesus could have been married to Mary Magdalene. At the time I was maintaining a site called Magdalene.org, which I’d created in 1998 as a repository for all the things I was… Continue reading
About Me
Technologist, mom, and erstwhile Mary Magdalene researcher rediscovering her love of the apostola apostolorum. Author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mary Magdalene (Alpha Books 2005), contributor to the Secrets of Mary Magdalene anthology and documentary video by Dan Burstein. Creator and curator of Magdalene.org, 1998-2017.
The “Woman Who Knew The All” is a reference to a passage in Dialogue of the Savior, a 2nd century Gnostic text.
