The Woman with the Alabaster Jar

 (from Amazon)

Margaret Starbird’s theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a book that dared to suggest that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalen and that their descendants carried on his holy bloodline in Western Europe. Shocked by such heresy, this Roman Catholic scholar set out to refute it, but instead found new and compelling evidence for the existence of the bride of Jesus--the same enigmatic woman who anointed him with precious unguent from her “alabaster jar.”

In this provocative book, Starbird draws her conclusions from an extensive study of history, heraldry, symbolism, medieval art, mythology, psychology, and the Bible itself. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar is a quest for the forgotten feminine--in the hope that its return will help restore a healthy balance to planet Earth.

A couple of links

As most of us do at this time of year, I am trying to clean out my desk and make sense of all the little papers I have lying around.

While doing that today I came across these two websites written on a tiny scrap of paper.

I will have to look into them more later, but I really need to get rid of all of this paper.

www.gregtrimble.com

www.bmaf.org

Interview with Blackbeard Expert Baylus Brooks | The Pirates Port

Interview with author Baylus Brooks about discovering the answer to a pirate mystery centuries old, who was the real Blackbeard.

Interesting enough the answer was there for anyone to find who went looking for it.... in the LDS Church's vast genealogical library.

The theory was that Blackbeard the pirate grew up in Jamaica in the early 1700's, possibly with the last name Teach, or Thatch. Thanks to some digitized Jamaican Anglican Church records from that time period the mystery has been solved.

(The entire interview is excellent, but if just want to hear the Church mentioned listen to 4:00-7:00, and 12:30-13:30)