Date Published: 04-08-2025
Publisher: She Writes Press
life and ministry—told from the perspective of disciple Mary
Magdalene—will implode everything you thought you knew.
Jesus Christ—Yeshua, to his friends—is not happy. Two thousand
years after his death, he sees Earth heading toward oblivion. Ever eager to
save humanity, he asks Mary Magdalene (Magda) for help. It’s time to
tell the real story of our time together, he says. Time to correct all the
misinformation, misogyny, and lies spread by Peter, Paul, and the Roman
Catholic Church. Still pissed that she’s been called a whore for almost
two millennia, Magda resists—but ultimately, out of love for Yeshua,
reluctantly agrees.
Through Magda’s words, Yeshua—to most today a symbolic,
practically mythological Biblical figure—comes back to life as a man of
flesh and blood, one wholly devoted to spreading his message of radical
equality. Magda tells of her travels with Yeshua and his followers around
Galilee, where they are menaced at every turn by Roman rulers. She relates
tales of miracles and murder, jealousy and acceptance, misogyny and female
empowerment. She describes her relationship with Yeshua, clarifying centuries
of speculation about whether or not they were in love. And, painfully, she
reveals the truth about who orchestrated his death.
But Magda’s narrative does not end there. Her life with Yeshua has
taught her that she has more strength than she ever imagined, and she begins
to tap into a spiritual power that is uniquely her own—the power to
connect people. Magda’s true role in the history of humanity, it turns
out, is just beginning to unfold.
About the Author
Ursula Werner has been writing for over twenty-five years. She has published
one novel, The Good at Heart (2017), and two chapbooks of poetry, The Silence
of the Woodruff (2006) and Rapunzel Revisited (2010). She holds graduate
degrees in English literature and law, and works part time as an attorney. She
and her husband live in Washington, DC, and are always trying to entice their
three daughters to live nearby.
