Mary Magdalene: The Woman Who Stayed When Everyone Else Fled

For nearly fifteen hundred years, the Western world called her a prostitute. She wasn't one. There is no line in any Gospel that says so.This is the story of a woman who financially supported a ministry out of her own means, stood at the foot of the cross when nearly every male disciple had fled, and became the first person, according to every Gospel account, to witness the resurrection. And how one sermon delivered in the year five hundred and ninety-one rewrote her entire reputation, a mistake the Church didn't formally correct for fourteen centuries.We dig into the illusory truth effect, the psychological mechanism behind how repetition alone, with zero evidence attached, can manufacture something that feels indistinguishable from fact, whether it's happening inside one mind or across an entire civilization.Halo or shadow? In her case, the shadow was never even hers to begin with.#historypodcast #psychology #philosophy