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I would like to have seen Jesus and his interactions with Mary Magdalene. Why? Because I want to know whether they were close; where she ranked among the disciples; how Jesus treated women, let alone female disciples; what Jesus was like in his private life.

This thread has been haunting my thoughts for the last two days. I wish to relate my quandary over redaction theory and literalism, and would appreciate input. When I was young (born and raised a Vatican 2 Catholic), I loved to read the Bible stories. One of things I recalled was regret that...

You are basing the idea that a lack of a certain myth is a fault, while ignoring the fact that Wicca is born in a 20th century Western society. The society most of us have grown up in is hugely secular, with very little respect and/or understanding for myths of any culture, let alone its own...

Christ may have told his disciples to carry nothing but we also hear about the disciples picking grain on the sabbath when hunger dictated. Jesus was known to eat with the publicans and sinners, and considering the gracious man he was, I doubt he turned up his nose to the banquet before him and...