Host Krista Tippett focuses on gathering a basic picture of what really happened in the fluid early years of Christianity. Why were some of the books early Christians read included in the Bible while others were left out? How did it happen that modern Christians inherited an erroneous view of women in the early Church, including Mary Magdalene? Voices: Luke Timothy Johnson, R.W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University, and Program Director of The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project.