HeyJaredThe Magdalene Thread
Stories, symbols, and history of Mary Magdalene, and everywhere her thread leads. Authors of Fishing on the Right Side of the Boat.
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A Treasure Hunt for Goodness (opens the original)
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“Grace meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” We often return to these words by one of our favorite authors, Anne Lamott. And perhaps nowhere have they felt more true than in our experience of Mary Magdalene.Whether we are Dorothy wandering down a yellow brick road in sparkly red shoes, Indiana Jones crossing the desert in search of a biblical treasure, or Elsa and Anna following a mysterious call into the unknown, the story is essentially the same: we set out, and somew
Seeing Magdalene Through Women’s Eyes (opens the original)
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Mary Magdalene is a woman who continually evades the nets of interpretation cast upon her, her memory shapeshifting according to what each age requires.The questions we were asking, and the serpentine way we followed symbols, stories, evidence, and scripture, led us somewhere unexpected: to a possibility barely explored in either academic or mystical circles. That Mary Magdalene might be the Beloved Disciple, the eyewitness authority behind the Fourth Gospel.To suggest that “John” was “Mary,” an
In Dark Water (opens the original)
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We like to say it began with 1-5-3—that strange, specific number of fish hauled ashore in the miraculous catch of John 21, the final chapter of the Fourth Gospel. But for readers diving into our new book on Mary Magdalene, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fishing-Right-Side-Boat-Magdalene-ebook/dp/B0H8TKN1N6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11DGD98V8E7IS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oWy2n0LpYUcjg90eZOGjRzm73aR9SLX2j_YeiAXe1XdAW8IpNDKQArQt2wKQ3rRkFQXBBO2LHgJdT0vv5y2pwhDod2EUZD6z7vssfk-s-Az10Ve6FGxuleg9VL4ne9RuU3YSXCkAEa-7rOwR
The Seventeenth Mile (opens the original)
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When we first began drafting the book that would become Fishing on the Right Side of the Boat, it started with a letter. Perhaps it was a declaration of intention, or a way of naming why we felt called to write about Mary Magdalene, the most misunderstood and controversial woman at the heart of Christian history. It opened with the words, We believe in Love… a belief that shaped everything that followed.We did not set out to challenge the Bible or overturn the tradition that formed us, but to lo
We Broke All the Rules (opens the original)
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For Mary.A five petaled flower—or star—rests below her name on the very first page.Four hundred and twenty. That was the final count: a number attempting to measure the unquantifiable, an effort and an adventure that could never be tallied in hours, days, tears, or epiphanies. A book that had been a very long time coming.This is a book that, in another lifetime, would have been burned. And in this one, it never would have survived the machinery of traditional publishing. It would have been deeme
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