I’m closing in on a final draft for the “Introduction to Johannite Practice” course. I think foreshadowed a mid-October launch, which I’ve just missed, but the beginning of the course is not too far off. Like the previous course, this one will drip out week by week for a while until it’s (temporarily) complete. Other than…
I just added a little mini-unit that uses the three Mary essays in the “What is a Johannite?” unit. It will grow over time and may become a video lecture when there’s some time. But for the moment, there’s a space to think and talk about the three Marys as part of the symbolic shape…
My intent with these short essays has been to trace parallel female figures to the two Johns depicted in the Introduction course – Mary Theotokos parallels John the Baptist, Mary of Bethany parallels John the Beloved. In the course of those explorations, we discover that the parallels aren’t direct – both Mary images deepen as well…
Just as Mary, Jesus’ mother, parallels the role of John the Baptist, so Mary of Bethany parallels the role of John the Beloved. As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat…