The Mystery of Mary Magdalene
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Throughout history, the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene has been interpreted and presented in numerous ways, often to serve the religious Western Christianity patriarchies in power. All of these concerted efforts make tracing her history difficult, but underneath it all, she threatened power structures and resonates today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.5 | Anne Smitha. |
| 0:11.3 | And welcome to Stuff One Ever Told Your production of IHart Radio. |
| 0:30.4 | And as we record this episode, it is April 9th, 2026, and we are coming off Easter weekend. |
| 0:41.4 | And due to a lot of world events and personal events, we're still scrambling a bit. So today I thought we would do an overview of a controversial figure from the Bible, Mary Magdalene. This was a suggestion |
| 0:50.6 | from a friend of mine because she was lamenting about the very specific |
| 0:54.9 | Catholic version of Mary Magdalene's story that she got and how she's like realizing |
| 1:01.5 | that might not be the case. I have to say I did, I was religious up until seventh grade. |
| 1:10.4 | I read the Bible a lot of times. I don't remember Mary |
| 1:12.8 | Bagelan at all. But I did read the Da Vinci Code, which is the first time I was like, |
| 1:22.8 | oh, I'd have not heard of this person. And I know, I know some of you are like gritting your teeth at that, but that is the first time I remember reading about Mary Magdalene. |
| 1:35.1 | However, if you don't know the plot twists in that book movie, it's that Jesus' bloodline lives on through his relations with Mary Magdalene, |
| 1:46.2 | who may have been a sex worker and or his wife. I think in the book it was his wife. |
| 1:50.8 | But it has been a minute since I have consumed that media. But whoa, my Christian friends did not like when I would bring it up. |
| 1:59.1 | They were always like, you know that's fiction, right? |
| 2:02.3 | Yeah, got it. |
| 2:06.4 | Anyway, Samantha, I wanted to ask about your experience with Mary Magdalene. |
| 2:12.0 | Well, I hate to admit it, but I probably would have been that Christian friend and be like, |
| 2:15.3 | you understand that we really, really bastardized this idea in a way that I would have been upset to. Yes, I did know quite a bit |
| 2:25.9 | about Mary Magdalene. Any female character that was of any importance in the Bible was |
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