Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet Paperback – January 19, 2021

Beautiful and powerful book. Very well written. It’s very hard to put it down. The truth of the love of Christ pours through this book and the true teachings of Jesus. The truth of woman’s heart and true divinity truly touched me. I cried multiples times reading this book and also felt a shift personally. We are reading this in my book club and I love the connection of the community of woman and the truth of how powerful of love. Thank you Meggan.

Great book

I am writing this review merely as a warning to those who are considering purchasing this book. I had already read the Gospel of Mary with commentary by French Theologian Jean-Yves Leloup. I wanted to read it again with a female Christian perspective. I made the false assumption that someone who had gone to divinity school was Christian. The author is not and she says it multiple times. Based on the one encounter she describes in Divinity School I think that the main reason for her going was to mock people who did. She also describes an episode of stress induced urticaria (i.e. a rash) after reading the gospel and though she has had more than one female influence who believed in the Gospel and practiced it, she takes this rash as proof of the fallacy of Christianity. What I learned from this book is the parable of the Sower in Matthew 13. I never fully understood this parable until now. Ms. Watterson is the seed that fell on the path. She has literally heard the Gospel but continues to reject it. Unfortunately, I was not able to finish the book although I did get half way through it. As I was deciding whether to finish it or not I realized that it is not possible for someone who does not have the Holy Spirit to interpret a text that was (maybe) inspired by G-d. The verdict is still out on whether this was truly a gnostic text or not. French Theologian Jean-Yves Leloup makes the argument that it is not a text of gnosticism but may have truly been inspired by the Holy Spirit and he makes comparisons to the current gospels. There is a lot of it missing so we may never know. Positives: The author is a great writer and is very open and honest about her experiences. If you are not like me then you may very well be able to finish the book and enjoy reading it.

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 why the Gospel of Mary was cut out in the first place.To those who are curious about what the Gospel of Mary actually says and want to interpret for themselves- 100% skip this. You won’t find that here. You’ll find a whole lot of feminist biases.She spends a lot of the book promoting Magdalene’s unique teachings about the aspects of the ego, and then explains her interpretations of them in the middle of the book for about 7 pages, and not a lot of insight with how to navigate them. Unfortunately, that’s the nature of the missing Gospel. I’m still mystified that the exact pages of the book are missing in all three ultra rare copies of the recovered texts.

YES YES YES!!!!!

This book is so well written! Interesting and beautiful! It sent me on a while Mary Magdalene research! Well done!