I’ve finally updated my webpage devoted to DVC stuff. Check it out, pass it on, etc.

De-Coding Mary Magdalene is out of course, but there’s no search the book function activated on the Amazon listing. I’ve put up the table of contents at the information page. I wrote it to fill a vacuum – there’s really nothing out there, from mainstream Catholic or, for that matter, any other religious publisher, that simply attempts to lay out the facts about MM, her life and her legend, without overlaying it with an agenda. Recent popular books are mostly fantasy – even last fall’s Doubleday release by Bruce Chilton is a very weird book that suggests that MM had been taught the secrets of mystical prayer and "seeing" by Jesus and her "seeing" of Jesus after his death was the fruit of that. Etc. Close to Margaret Starbird territory there.

(OH! By the way – guess who’s coming to town this weekend? Yes, indeed, Margaret Starbird herself, offering a day-and-a-half workshop at the Holiday Inn downtown. $110 a head. I’m going to go lurk in the lobby and see if I can get a sense of how many people would actually show up for such a thing. Expect a report over the weekend…)

So really – if you’re interested in Mary Magdalene – the truth about her (to the extent that we know it) as well as the truth about how the Christian tradition viewed her and talked about her – check out my book.

Also now available from OSV – the 100-question-and answer  Da Vinci Code Mysteries – focused on what made it from novel to screen. Available in packs of ten here.

And finally, don’t forget the pamphlets, available in packs of 50.

But what I really want to do is direct!