{"id":2879,"date":"2012-10-08T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T10:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2018-07-20T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T18:39:10","slug":"love-and-marriage-when-youre-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/fellowshipofsaintsandsinners\/2012\/10\/love-and-marriage-when-youre-saving-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Love and Marriage When You&#8217;re Saving the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have any of you been following the news around the recent discovery of a fourth-century papyrus fragment that mentions Jesus&#8217; \u00a0wife? \u00a0The veracity of the papyrus is apparently dubious at best; but this hasn&#8217;t stopped Harvard professor Karen King from seizing on the new-found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hds.harvard.edu\/faculty-research\/research-projects\/the-gospel-of-jesuss-wife\">Gospel of Jesus&#8217; Wife<\/a>\u00a0as a fresh spring for research insights (or, the justification for another round of conspiracy theories). \u00a0(I&#8217;ll be curious to see which it is.) \u00a0In the meantime, political cartoonist Mike Luckovitch, whose work often appears in my local paper, <em>The Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/em>, has done some midrash of his own on the theme of Jesus and marriage:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have any of you been following the news around the recent discovery of a fourth-century papyrus fragment that mentions Jesus&#8217; \u00a0wife? \u00a0The veracity of the papyrus is apparently dubious at best; but this hasn&#8217;t stopped Harvard professor Karen King from seizing on the new-found\u00a0Gospel of Jesus&#8217; Wife\u00a0as a fresh spring for research insights (or, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,65],"tags":[1125,1126,1122,1124,1123,1127],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-jesus","category-the-bible","tag-gnostic-gospels","tag-jesus-and-women","tag-karen-king","tag-papyrus","tag-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife","tag-was-jesus-married"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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