The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

Nonetheless, women were the first witnesses to the resurrection. Interestingly, too, Jesus’s first appearance was also to a woman, Mary Magdalene. While standing near the tomb, she saw a figure ...

If Mary Magdalene so often embodies the “scarlet woman” trope ... of her character in tradition and culture—she is surely the first apostle of the resurrection. John’s Gospel makes her the very first ...

Mary Magdalene, his disciple and the first witness to the resurrection; Mary and Martha, the sisters who offered him hospitality in Bethany. Now we are learning more of the many women who ...

Her research focuses on textual criticism, Mary Magdalene, and the Gospel of John ... Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life, those who believe me will never die, do you believe this?” Martha ...

she is the first person to bear witness to the resurrection. "I have seen the Lord," she says. In that instant, she is the witness for the witnesses, the apostle to the apostles. Mary Magdalene ...

The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided for the Apostles out of her own resources.

In the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene is the first person to see Jesus after the resurrection. Jesus appeared to Mary after she returned alone to the empty tomb and instructed her to tell the ...

It was during Easter of 2020, in the middle of the pandemic lockdown, that I realized that Mary Magdalene had headed ... Lent and into Easter expecting the Resurrection. But like the disciples ...