Mistaking Mary Magdalene The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

Mary Magdalene has been portrayed as a sinner, a nun, a mystic, and Jesus’ wife. The patron saint of outcasts, she embodies uncertainty. “To engage with her story requires divine imagination,” Eliza Griswold writes.

And my church choir director is grateful!

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Zekher tzadik livrakha.

After a Century, Two Soldiers Get True Rest “Operation Benjamin” makes sure the graves of America’s fallen Jewish soldiers are properly marked.

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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters," aquatint, c. 1799.

Nobody ever asks what a man is, though. They're all too hung up on the definition of woman.

I am in our church choir, and we sing at most funerals. I often find myself grieving not having known the deceased as well as I might have. I agree, it's important to be there for fellow parishioners and their families at the very end.