In this second Smith-Pettit lecture, Margaret Starbird will discuss the partnership of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, providing evidence from the Hebrew and Christian sacred texts that the Sacred Union was originally at the heart of the Christian mythology. The loss of the ‘Bride” in the Christian story has had tragic consequences. Restoring the holy mandala of the hieros gamos–the sacred marriage that celebrates the symbiosis of the opposites–can heal many areas of our woundedness.

Maxine Hanks, Margaret Starbird