Mary Magdalene who, despite popular culture, was not a prostitute, a noblewoman named Joanna and a healer called Salome were among his close circle. And Joanna, who had been married to an official of ...

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. It has a history to it, but like all of these things it’s also taken on a history of its own. In eastern Christianity the third Sunday following Easter (Pascha) is dedicated ...

(RNS) — ‘It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,’ said Beth Allison Barr. (RNS) — Emerging from the narrow entrance to a cave south of Jerusalem, ...

Emerging from the narrow entrance to a cave south of Jerusalem, scholar Joan Taylor found herself saying a blessing for Salome. Salome is described in the Gospels as following and ministering to Jesus ...