This is an unpretentious work accessible and still scholarly work in which Meggan Watterson explores her love for the moving sense of God she experienced as a child in the Jesus story. She is influenced by the unconditional love and simple
beautiful lived
out faith and compassion of her grandmother. Her experience of manifest divinity contrasted with a visceral unease about church dogma.
She went to Union Theological Seminary; not to become ordained but as part of her slow honing in on the Truth she experiences so mysteriously but which seems held in an impenetrable and deeply misogynistic rigid structure. She follows the desert mothers and fathers self emptying and contemplative practice.
When she comes across the Gospel of Mary Magdalene long suppressed by the church everything changes.
This is a profound exploration. It offers a new clarity and depth to Christian belief and practice.
You will find Jesus and the Christ you probably already love free of centuries of overlay & more radiant.
An understanding and admiration for Mary of Magdala addresses the unsettling sadness and confusions you may have felt in the religion as long expressed in its anti-feminine form.
It well may answer questions lurking in your mind and take you past the place of looking to get in line with dogma to the freedom of the life in God unconstrained –
Your admiration will grow for the disciple he loved, Mary, and who he recognises as the only one of the inner circle who made the leap to the full realisation.
Written by Meggan Watterson