Dr. Dave Nienhuis, theologian at Seattle Pacific University, and Rev. Karen Ward, pastor of the emergent Church of the Apostles, and TKM host, Dick Staub, respond to Margaret Starbird’s theories about Mary Magdalene’s marriage to Jesus in segment two. This The Kindlings Muse podcast explores the basis for her conclusions and why she thinks it is essential to reinstate the feminine in Christianity. The “Da Vinci Code” brought into popular consciousness this idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, who carried his child. Margaret Starbird’s “The Woman and the Alabaster Jar” was one of Dan Brown’s sources. (27 Minutes)