Agreed Scott, it makes no difference in the Kingdom whether Mary Magdalene earned a living from prostitution or not. The article was written more from the perspective of clarifying how historic gender bias has helped determine doctrine even to the present day. My intent in the original posting, which was posted on a blogsite about the equal role of women in the Kingdom, was to encourage women and men both to look further into things than popular culture and contemporary Christian culture often discloses. Thankyou for commenting!

This is quite a remarkable article.

Honestly, I don’t know that it would have mattered if the Magdalene was the prostitute, but it’s good to have it clarified. It also reinforces the place of women in the Lord’s order, the power of the gospel through the centuries up to the present on behalf of women. The women’s movement, like other righteousness efforts, often confuse the work and claim it for themselves.