Mary Magdalene
New AI app lets users ‘text with’ Jesus and other biblical figures
By Fiona André — August 7, 2023
(RNS) — The app replicates an instant messaging platform, allowing users to chat with ChatGPT impersonations of biblical figures, including the apostles, the prophets, Ruth, Job, Lot and more.
New books spotlight women’s leadership in New Testament
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 4, 2023
(RNS) — ‘It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,’ said Beth Allison Barr.
The scandal of evangelical Christian friendship
By Karen Swallow Prior — September 9, 2022
(RNS) — Christians more than anyone else ought to have the most robust and healthiest understanding of friendship, including, or especially, those between men and women.
All-female ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ album bolsters show’s groundbreaking legacy
By Kathryn Post — April 29, 2022
(RNS) — Men have always dominated the rock opera's musical score — until now.
Was Mary Magdalene really from Magdala? Two scholars examine the evidence
By Yonat Shimron — January 7, 2022
(RNS) — The two scholars suggest Magdalene may well be an honorific from the Hebrew and Aramaic words meaning ‘tower’ or ‘magnify.’
Tony Evans, Priscilla Shirer see Bible lessons anew in documentary of Holy Land trip
By Adelle M. Banks — November 12, 2021
(RNS) — ‘I've been five times, but the experience was like the first time,’ said Evans. ‘The reality of the living Christ coming through that location dominates.’
Scribes tried to blot her out. Now a scholar is trying to recover the real Mary Magdalene.
By Yonat Shimron — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — New questions about Mary Magdalene's true identity have implications not just for biblical scholars but for policy about women's roles in the church.
In new film, Mary Magdalene is rechristened a revolutionary, healer and baptizer
By Cathleen Falsani — April 19, 2019
(RNS) — In the new film 'Mary Magdalene,' the title character is many things but not the one role in which she has been historically (mis)cast: the so-called 'fallen woman.'
#MeToo, ‘Mary Magdalene’ focus on women’s stories in Bible as Easter nears
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 18, 2019
(RNS) — It seems like the women of Scripture are having a moment leading up to Easter (April 21), celebrated by many Christians as the day they believe Jesus rose from the dead.
Who was Mary Magdalene? New book explores the life of the saint
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 21, 2016
(RNS) The biblical figure of Mary Magdalene has been 'interpreted and misinterpreted, just as Jesus has been interpreted and misinterpreted,' according to historian Michael Haag.
Scientists bring saints back to life with imaging technology
By Janet Tappin Coelho — July 18, 2016
RIO DE JANEIRO (RNS) The scientists, both members of the Brazilian Team of Forensic Anthropology and Forensic Odontology, have discovered that the religious images of saints are generally inaccurate.
The Egg-‘Splainer: What is Holy Week and Easter all about?
By Kimberly Winston — April 1, 2015
(RNS) Happy Holy Week! Why is Good Friday "good," and how did Jesus stretch 36 hours from the crucifixion to his resurrection into three days? And what's up with the colored eggs? Let us 'Splain.
#blacklivesmatter in Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s ‘A.D.’
By Adelle M. Banks — April 1, 2015
(RNS) Mark Burnett and Roma Downey's "The Bible" miniseries was criticized as too white. Now they're back with "A.D.," and the cast is more multicultural than you might imagine.
3 ways relics and artifacts can help us ‘find Jesus’
By David Gibson — February 26, 2015
(RNS) Despite the overblown claims and dodgy artifacts floating around out there, genuine artifacts and solid historical research still provide the best window into a long-ago world and the best chance to figure out who Jesus really was, and what he meant.
5 reasons why we want to believe Jesus was married
By David Gibson — November 19, 2014
(RNS) A new claim that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married (and had kids!) has been widely dismissed by experts. But that won't be the last we'll hear of this theory. Here's why.
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