Mary Magdalene

I am sharing this because I believe all Christian women deserve so much more respect and kindness than they have been shown over the centuries. This article written in hope that more women will take an interest in reading the Gnostic accounts of Mary and learn why she and all women have been excluded from leadership roles in the church.

If you want to know how and why, you need to read the books from early followers of Jesus because these were purposely left out of your bible. Jesus never intended that women would be shamed or powerless. What has happened is the result of human greed and a need for control.

The early Christian movement was highly diverse, and alternative texts existed that gave women massive authority. When the orthodox Church standardized the New Testament canon in the 4th century, whole books were excluded, which were collectively known as the Gnostic Gospels. These texts actively portrayed women as spiritual equals, visionary leaders, and apostles.

During the 1945 discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in Egypt, archeologists recovered texts written by early “Gnostic” Christian sects. These writings reveal a completely different dynamic between Jesus and his female followers than is commonly accepted today.

Written in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Mary is not a reformed prostitute (a myth invented centuries later by Pope…