The Magdalene, part one

"I have seen the Lord"

In which we address a pet peeve of mine concerning the “apostle to the apostles”

[As her feast day is tomorrow, we thought we’d re-print this two-part appreciation of Mary Magdalene’s true role in the earliest church.]

There have been few in Christian history who have been treated as unfairly as Mary of Magdala. So unfairly that there remains a slander a…