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Mary Magdalene Revealed
Mary Magdalene Revealed | Meggan Watterson
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A new perspective on one of the most misunderstood figures in the Christian story offers the key to reclaiming the divine feminine aspect of Christianity as we discover the radical presence of love around and within us. A gospel, as old and as authentic as any of the gospels that now make up the Christian bible, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed. Fortunately, some rebel monks were wise enough to refuse--and thanks to their disobedience and spiritual spunk, we have several ancient manuscripts of the only gospel that was written in the name of a woman: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. This gospel tells a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. This gospel says that we are not sinful; we are not to feel ashamed for being human. In fact, each person's purpose is to be fully human, to be a "true human being"--that is, a person who has remembered that she is also divine. This divinity is not something we will ever receive through confession or absolution from relationships or institutions outside of us; rather, this "child of true humanity" exists within us, inside our own heart. And all we need to do is to turn inward; to meditate, like Mary Magdalene, in the way her gospel directs us to see the radical presence of love all around us; and to allow that vision to change everything.
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saritajane321
Mary Magdalene Revealed | Meggan Watterson
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If we hadn't silenced women and asked them to leave the altar from the start, I wonder what the world would be like now. And I wonder how girls and women would be treated if we would have been able, all along, to hear who Christ was, who Christ is according to women, to mothers, to daughters, to the souls in a human body that can actually create life inside them. Or, to put it another way, I'm excited to see how the world might change once we do.

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Mdion1993
Mary Magdalene Revealed | Meggan Watterson
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Maggan Watterson oscillates between sermon, personal experience, and reflection as she assesses the Catholic church‘s treatment of women, specifically Mary Magdalene, throughout history.

Introspective ✨ New Wave ✨ Religious

Note: The content of this book is more religious than historical. While it does provide insight on the church‘s treatment of women, it does so under the assumption that Christ is real. Not hateful, just not what I believe.

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kaleidoscope.reader
Mary Magdalene Revealed | Meggan Watterson
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Such an eye opening book full of the feminine strength.

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