Mary Magdalene: The ‘Apostle to the Apostles’ Who Was Wronged By History

Part Four of the ‘Not Many Mighty’ series

Paul Combs
Artisanal Article Machine
5 min readJul 19, 2022

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“Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection” by Alexander Ivanov, 1835 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Welcome to the weekly installment of the “Not Many Mighty” series, where we look at heroes from the Bible as they really were, warts and all. In the last episode, I said that this week we’d be looking at the poster boy of second chances, the apostle Peter. That’s actually…

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Paul Combs
Artisanal Article Machine

Writer, bookseller, would-be roadie for the E Street Band. My ultimate goal is to make books as popular in Texas as high school football...it may take a while.