Why is Mary Magdalene the Newsweek Cover Girl?

[spindrifter]

I certainly don't have great expectations, but this is pretty far from "news."

[marmar]

1. Da Vinci Code hype...

:(

[spindrifter]

7. Hasn't there been enough? Or can there

be enough hype? Nancy Pearl, author of Book Lust, commentator on a variety of public radio book review shows, trashed DVC as really poorly written.

[Kutjara]

2. Newsweek is always a bit behind the times.

Mary Magdalene is probably late breaking news for them. Wait a few months, and they'll have a report about some Middle Eastern religious leader getting crucified by the Romans.

[Bluebear]

3. Newsweek & TIME have gone holy.

One cover after the other about religion.

[Swamp Rat]

20. Who's the white lady on the cover of Time Magazine?

Is she saying 'hi' to Mary Magdalene? :hi: :shrug:

[pinto]

4. Sells copies, apparently.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Seems Fairly Obvious To Me.

:shrug:

[Clark2008]

6. Why not?

She was a happenin' chick back in the B.C.'s. :hi:

[onehandle]

8. nt

nt

[Bluebear]

10. yoo hoo

:hi:

[onehandle]

12. Ah. I Saw the other cover in the thread.

Never mind.

[spindrifter]

15. Looks like M. Magdalene to me.

:shrug:

[Jigarotta]

9. because shes' not a prostitute?

took decades for 'the church' to fess up to that.

good for Mary.

(btw, nothing against prostitutes)

[RoyGBiv]

13. Some still don't ...

Took me four years to undo the teachings of a single Protestant Sunday school class my daughter attended with a friend on this one.

[Jigarotta]

16. I wonder why women are so dangerous to the 'establishment'...

if Mary wasn't a 'prostitute', then good lord maybe she was a person. Can't allow that.
Has not been allowed. Gonads Voodoo Mystery does.

btw, who could have been Magdalene's 'Johns"
I think one of them was named Scott Free.

[rurallib]

11. Revealed as girlfriend (maybe Wife) of powerful politician.

[pooja]

14. Newsweek

Has always been one of those magazines designed to make average look smart... My mother used it as an academic tool when I was in the 8th grade to get me involved in politics and the world. We would read the articles and discuss the implications. She chose Newsweek because she felt the dummed down the language better than Time magazine and therfore a 12yr old could read it.

So, since everyone in the news business seems stuck on Du Code, they will report it to.

[shain from kane]

17. What next? Playboy centerfold? n/t

[jbnow]

18. I think it's a good thing

I am not part of any religion or church, but I think looking at the larger role of women can only do good. Not quite the return of the goddess, but the refeminization of spiritual history is important.

Part of the problem with religion is the rigidity and authoritarian male dominance thing.

I like men! I don't like the walls of separation religion uses. Paul had a big issue with women and so did the church for a very long time. Stretching the borders can only help.

Mary of Magdala is mentioned more often in the gospels than Mary the mother of Jesus is. The church actually recognized her as a disciple in the 60's but you wouldn't know it. At some point people are going to wonder more if she was one of his disciples, the first he appeared to, the one sent to spread the news that perhaps refusing female priests has nothing to do with what Jesus would want but what church authority pretends is right.

The male authority of the church reflects the limitation of religion. The acceptance of women can expand that to the inclusion of spirituality...which is what Jesus (man or myth) was really about.

[spindrifter]

19. Thanks for that perspective.

[RB TexLa]

21. She's not n/t