Links + Resources

Early Christian Writings
[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/]
A comprehensive site containing ancient texts mentioned in this program, including the gnostic gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and many others.

The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project
[http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/]
Directed by Bernadette Brooten, the project's website provides essays, links, and resources pertaining to issues of gender, religion, sexuality, and slavery.

The Nag Hammadi Library
[http://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html]
Contains a brief introduction and translations of texts, categorized by codex, discovered in a jar in upper Egypt in 1945. Site includes Gnostic scriptures the Gospels of Thomas, Philip, and Truth, which were mentioned in the program.

Da Vinci's Last Supper
[http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3606237/]
A brief Newsweek article examining Leonardo's famous painting (12.08.2003).

"Mary Magdalene Saint or Sinner?"
[http://www.danbrown.com/media/morenews/time.html]
Reprint of a Time article (2003.08.11) that addresses the renewed interest in the misinterpretations of the saint's misrepresentation.

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
[http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=446]
Complete text of Reinhold Niebuhr's classic 1944 text.

The Nag Hammadi Library
[http://www.nag-hammadi.com/]
Initiation into gnosis and the Christian tradition, as enlightened by the Nag Hammadi texts.