The Gnostic Gospel of Mary, which was found in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in the Egyptian desert, also is associated with Mary Magdalene. Aida Spencer, professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell ...

Imagine that alongside Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, your New Testament includes a fifth Gospel where "seven Powers of Wrath" interrogate the human soul, accusing it of being a "human-killer" and ...

She's been apostle to the apostles. She's been Jesus' disciple and Jesus' wife. She's been a sinner and a saint, played a starring role in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" and ended up a feminist icon.

Imagine a Bible that begins like this: God said, “I am the Lord thy God, and there are no other gods but me.” Then a voice came out of the deepest heaven and said, “Thou liest, god of the blind!” Or ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Redeemed sinner, prostitute, wife of Jesus? Mary Magdalene's image has gone through many incarnations over the centuries, and this Lenten season she's drawing new attention thanks to the upcoming ...

The movie and book are fiction. But anyone who took in The Da Vinci Code in theaters over the weekend might be wondering whether they had fallen asleep in Sunday School. From the big screen, viewers ...

Composer Mark Adamo was on vacation in the Galapagos with his husband, the composer John Corigliano, when he had an encounter with Mary Magdalene that would guide the course of his creative life for ...

Redeemed sinner, prostitute, wife of Jesus? Mary Magdalene’s image has gone through myriad incarnations over the centuries, and this Lenten season she’s drawing new attention thanks to the upcoming ...