The Magdalene Mystique - The Path Inward

Katharine Jefferts Schori is a great gift to the Episcopal Church and to the world. I want all of you to have access to Bill Moyer’s interview of her that was aired recently on pbs.

She talks about many of the topics that we discuss on this website: the interconnectedness of all life (she mentions Sally McFague’s The Body of God) is a topic she delights in. She wants to bring religion and science more into dialogue with one another. She stresses the importance of a contextual reading of scripture and the inclusiveness in the full life of the church of gay and lesbian persons and women.

Toward the end of the interview she sketches broadly the leadership of women in the Jewish and Christian traditions. She mentions Miriam and Deborah from the Hebrew Scriptures. She mentions Mary Magdalene, whom she refers to as the “apostle to the apostles” who was rejected and transformed into a prostitute - one of the women whose insights made the church “uncomfortable.” I hope you will take time to soak in this interview. She is a great gift to all of us.

Here is the website information: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06082007/watch2.html

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