This year’s summit brings together an extraordinary circle of scholars, mystics, authors, theologians, priestesses, researchers, pilgrimage guides, and spiritual teachers.

Each carries a different thread of the Magdalene story.

Some are returning to ancient texts.

Some are working with ritual, prayer, sound, oil, ceremony, and the body.

Some are tracing the sacred geography of Paris, Glastonbury, the Holy Land, France, and the Cathar lands.

Some are asking what changes when we take Mary Magdalene seriously as teacher, witness, mystic, beloved, apostle, priestess, or living symbol of the Divine Feminine.

Together, they are helping us explore what was buried, what survived, and what is returning now.

Magdalene Rising began with a simple recognition.

So many women were asking the same questions in private.

Questions about the version of Christianity they inherited.

Questions about women, power, embodiment, intuition, prayer, sexuality, spiritual authority, and the stories they were taught to accept without question.

Questions about why Mary Magdalene seemed to hover at the edge of the story, even though something about her presence felt central.

We were asking them too.

What began as conversations between women who felt drawn to early Christian texts, spiritual awakening, and the forgotten feminine gradually became a shared vision: to create a place where these questions could be held with curiosity, care, scholarship, lived experience, and room to breathe.

We are not here to hand anyone a new doctrine.

We are here to gather the pieces.

To look more closely.

To let history, sacred text, devotion, mystery, and our own inner knowing speak to one another.

And to create a space where women no longer have to choose between intelligence and intuition, scholarship and spirit, grounded inquiry and sacred longing.