{"id":93,"date":"2004-01-04T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-04T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2012-05-22T16:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T22:09:53","slug":"93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Drat that Mary Magdalene"},"content":{"rendered":"

More attempted damage control from the Christian right to the fuss raised by The Da Vinci Code<\/em>, about which I blogged earlier on Dec. 9, 2003.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here, AP writer Richard N. Ostling writes a fairly snide review<\/a> of Karen L. King’s The Gospel of Mary Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(Credit to Religion News Blog<\/a>, which has the dirt on all kinds of religious groups, so long as they are not<\/em> “Christian apologists [or] countercult professionals.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More attempted damage control from the Christian right to the fuss raised by The Da Vinci Code, about which I blogged earlier on Dec. 9, 2003. Here, AP writer Richard N. Ostling writes a fairly snide review of Karen L. King’s The Gospel of Mary Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle. 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