Martin Scorsese will dive into the journey to sainthood with an eight-part Fox Nation docuseries
United States AP Martin Scorsese has already said he’s working on a film about Jesus, and now he’s making a project about saints. Scorsese will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama called Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints for the streaming service Fox Nation, it announced Wednesday. Martin Scorsese arrives for an event in Beverly Hills, California. […]
The Long Read: New books spotlight women’s leadership in New Testament
“It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,” said Beth Allison Barr. EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports…
Was Mary Magdalene really from Magdala? Two scholars examine the evidence
RNS The findings were heralded with bold headlines. Archaeologists excavating near the Israeli town of Migdal, also known as Magdala, had found remnants of a first-century synagogue. “2nd-Temple-period synagogue found where Gospel’s Mary Magdalene was born,” The Jerusalem Post’s 12th December headline declared. Newsweek, Express UK and the Smithsonian magazine followed up with similar headlines. The […]
ESSAY: IN SEARCH OF MARY MAGDALENE
With the recent release of the film, Mary Magdalene, ALVIN JOHNSON takes a look at what we know about her…
ON THE SCREEN: REDEEMING MARY MAGDALENE
DAVID ADAMS watches Mary Magdalene…
ESSAY: WHO WAS MARY MAGDALENE? DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF THE PENITENT PROSTITUTE
With the new film Mary Magdalene to be released in Australia later this month, in an article first published on The Conversation, Australian academic DOROTHY ANN LEE, Frank Woods Professor of New Testament of Trinity College at the University of Divinity, takes a look at the Biblical character…