Mary Rourke discusses her novel, “Two Women of Galilee.” She begins by explaining how she decided to write Biblical fiction after reading about women who were hardly mentioned in the New Testament. She introduces her main character Joanna, who she decided to make a distant cousin of the Virgin Mary. She talks about how Joanna desires to meet Jesus, who helps to cure her sickness. Rourke talks about how she could imagine life in Jesus’ time after seeing exhibits on Pompeii. Martinson asks Rourke to read a passage from her book about the power of compassion and prayer. She ends the interview by talking about what religious subjects mean to her and how she uses them in novels.
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