{"id":13749,"date":"2025-04-22T14:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13749"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:29:24","slug":"mary-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/22\/mary-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary X&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-weekend-essay\/mistaking-mary-magdalene?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_042025&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=tny_daily_digest&amp;bxid=5be9e74224c17c6adfd571bb&amp;cndid=14696637&amp;hasha=224005d5146471ced50eaecb3a83e763&amp;hashb=19f8dec59c317f588b8a71a1610e7e5fe5f01c40&amp;hashc=c3efbc0c0a351b600558628c967270e66b6b4b5626998e7a028935dac0a33f6d&amp;esrc=&amp;mbid=CRMNYR012019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mistaking Mary Magdalene<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/eliza-griswold\">Eliza Griswold<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/68014d07ae06e15a54edba4c\/master\/w_2560%2Cc_limit\/WeekendEssay_Magdalene.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of Mary Magdalene.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father\u2019s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do. As with many of the unsettling religious tchotchkes scattered around the rectory where I spent my childhood, I didn\u2019t give much thought to the unkempt icon, until more recently, when I grew curious about Mary Magdalene and began to read into the controversies swirling around her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-weekend-essay\/mistaking-mary-magdalene?utm_source=nl&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_042025&amp;utm_campaign=aud-dev&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=tny_daily_digest&amp;bxid=5be9e74224c17c6adfd571bb&amp;cndid=14696637&amp;hasha=224005d5146471ced50eaecb3a83e763&amp;hashb=19f8dec59c317f588b8a71a1610e7e5fe5f01c40&amp;hashc=c3efbc0c0a351b600558628c967270e66b6b4b5626998e7a028935dac0a33f6d&amp;esrc=&amp;mbid=CRMNYR012019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The New Yorker<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New Yorker Mistaking Mary Magdalene The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith. By&nbsp;Eliza Griswold An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father\u2019s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}