Meggan Watterson's "Mary Magdalene Revealed: Uncovering the First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel, and a New Way of Practicing Christianity"

Stella 🌿: Couldn't put it down. Any mature woman can relate to a myriad of stories Meggan takes you through.
I truly identity with the kaleidoscope of emotions, inspiration and experiences.
Brought me back into myself.
Mary is represented in divine reverence. Reminding us always, we share this journey with her. It never stops. X

Canada on Jan 05, 2024

Peter Kamenik: I have known for a long time that the picture the church painted of Mary Magdalene was not accurate. This book takes me into the life of someone searching for the true Mary Magdalene. I wish there had been more of Mary Magdalene's gospel.

United States on Dec 25, 2023

Jenn: Thank you for this book and sharing your journey to love. I cannot express in words how much reading this touched my heart. And, just when I thought I was done reading for a while! Your story has reopened a portal I was beginning to think was locked for good. Thank you from all of my heart ❤️

United States on Dec 10, 2023

Richard: I am marking this a 4 because the author is all about love and notes that she gets self-conscious about her work, but I honestly felt some parts of the book were a 3 and others 4.

I finished the book not feeling like I learned much about Mary Magdalene, but a whole lot about a LGBTQ’s woman’s ADHD pick-and-choose feminist beliefs based on various things she read in Divinity School, an adventure to France, and things she sees when she meditates. ~5% of the book is scripture, 25% is about Mary Magdalene and 70% is a hodgepodge of various scripture, empowered women spiritual stories, miscellaneous spiritual stories, and then synchronicity’s that connect all of the above to the author’s life. It’s pretty scattered. Still, she manages to tie most of her ideas together, and I read the whole book because I too have a short attention span and enjoy personal narratives and the stories she shares.

I’d 100% recommend this book to feminists and lesbians who perhaps walked away from their faith or relationship with Christ and are seeking a new perspective to connect again. It’s empowering to know there is a reason why the church developed to be so male centric, and...

United States on Nov 26, 2023

Amazon Customer: I’m totally hooked on this book, and I’m so appreciative of the author’s journey to get her to a place where she has written this for women; and of course men.

This book is for Christians and non-Christians alike.

I grew up in a Christian household and went to a Church of England school, and so had gone to church while I was young, but I didn’t feel Christianity was really shoved down my throat. It was the social norm at that time.

I never really took to Christianity and stopped going to Church when I was 7. I do not consider myself religious in that sense, and I’ve had my eyes opened as to why it never felt right to me. And that I never questioned it back then. It was exactly what I need to read when I read it, and it was recommendation from another woman and mentor of mine.

Add study sociology and criminology at university, so knew that they were cultural norms and values that get passed down, but it’s only since getting older and saying things like this you realise how many untruths have been in circulation for so long.

United Kingdom on Nov 05, 2023

A. Viertel: This book really made me think about
how religious institutions are formed and how the creation of institutions can undercut the ideas that have them rise. Read this with an open mind.

United States on Sep 29, 2023

Manoela: Livro relevante por apresentar dados invisbilizados sobre a história e a formação do cristianismo moderno. Triste ver que existiam possibilidades mais humanizadas que foram negligenciadas. Minha única crítica é o teor repetitivo do livro.

Brazil on Feb 10, 2021

Kordula Irina: Mary Magdalene Revealed is one of my favourite books because by reading it I end up in a state of deep contemplation. Sometimes by reading the book or listening to the audiobook it also feels like a meditation to me. Personally I am able to relate very well to Watterson's personal journey she shares in the book. Her interpretation of verses from Mary's gospel is unique and refreshing. According to the author Mary Magdalene was the only person who was able to fully perceive Christ in her heart and this was the reason she had also been His first apostle, the apostle to the apostles. In my opinion Mary Magdalene Revealed can be categorized as Christian mystic literature.

Germany on Feb 04, 2020

Cliente de Kindle: The feeling of joy it gives you to know that truth and love are at the core of Catholic Church is heart opening and soul warming.

Mexico on Dec 31, 2019

David E. Schutt: I feel as though, as a male, i'v been evesdropping. By this I mean reading a book based on scarcity of unity and non dual. while was reading it I found myself squeezing to be included in some small way as a good man. I have found that to be fully human / divine, women and men must "vest" in otherness so as to be present to pristine goodness and image and likeness of The Divine. The fullest sense of the differentiates of our unity. Strangely, this past Holy Week I was inspired by my inner source Sophia, to follow Mary Magdalene and the other women on their journey. And suffice it to say in the end I found myself sitting on the ground beside her waiting.
I was an ordained deacon for 33 years. This year in May, I was told by the pastor of our church that I was no longer needed. I am a contemplative, I read spiritually daily, journal volumes and do Centering Prayer meditation. The practice of inclusive mysticism is not supported by clericalism or the status quo of institutional church. When told I was no longer needed, I responded, "I understand" and I submitted my note of resignation. I am an inclusive, progressive, radical, paradoxical Catholic. A couple years ago a priest on...

United States on Aug 17, 2019