Mary Magdalene

Most of us take access to an education for granted. We expect doors to open for us if we seek it. We know that we can enter a Church or a university and be allowed to receive the same education as males. We see an open book and a woman leaning over it and we…

Western culture does not do well with death. We no longer have rituals and practises to support the grieving. We seem to find the whole idea of death uncomfortable, living in denial of our own essential mortality. In ancient times all the way into the nineteenth century, death was a visible reality. With death rates…

In all the contention of who Mary Magdalene was the focus is often on her relationship with Jesus rather than the truth of who she was. I personally believe Mary Magdalene was most likely an ordained priestess, a prophetess, a mystic, a powerful preacher and an initiator who performed baptisms. Mary Magdalene continued her own…