Maggy Whitehouse

Maggy Whitehouse trained as a stand-up comedian in 2012 at the age of 56. She is unique for her no-holds-barred interpretation of religion and priesthood and is now a professional comic gigging throughout the UK. In 2014 she took her one-hour show The Maggy Whitehouse Experience{{Cite web|title = The Rev. Maggy Whitehouse Three Minute Interview: Broadway Baby, Brighter Coverage.|url = http://www.broadwaybaby.com/news/rev-maggy-whitehouse/197|website = Broadway Baby|accessdate = 2015-11-26}} to the Edinburgh Fringe.{{Cite web|title = Review: The Maggy Whitehouse Experience {{!}} The Wee Review |url = http://theweereview.com/review/the-maggy-whitehouse-experience/|website = The Wee Review|accessdate = 2015-11-26}} She was a finalist in the 2015 UK Funny Women Awards,.{{Cite web|title = Your 2015 Funny Women Awards winner is...|url = http://funnywomen.com/2015/09/24/your-2015-funny-women-awards-winner-is/|website = Funny Women|date = 24 September 2015|accessdate = 2015-11-26}}

In 2018 she joined forces with two Anglican clergy, Rev. Ravi Holy of the Wye Benefice and Rev. Kate Bruce, RAF Chaplain to form [https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/1-march/news/uk/white-collar-comedians-take-to-the-stage White Collar Comedy]. The three performed at Edinburgh Fringe from 1 to 10 August 2019 at Sofi's Southside.{{Cite web|publisher = Devon Live | title=Meet the real-life Vicar of Dibley.|url = https://www.devonlive.com/whats-on/meet-devons-real-life-vicar-3073318 | date=14 July 2019 | first=Charlotte | last=Vowles | accessdate=15 October 2019}}

Maggy Whitehouse is an author and teacher of the Judaic mystical system of Kabbalah with particular reference to the mystical interpretation of the teachings of Jesus and the place and role of women in the Bible era.

Her latest book is A Woman's Worth, The Divine Feminine in the Hebrew Bible.

Whitehouse's 2007 book The Marriage of Jesus explored the social and economic times in which Jesus lived. Her theory is that Jesus would have married, like any other young man of his times, at the age of approximately 14. Working from historical knowledge of the times (and referring to Suzanne Dixon's book The Roman Mother) Whitehouse begins from the premise that the average lifespan of a woman in Jesus' time was 27 years. As Jesus is said to have begun his ministry at approximately 30 years old, she finds it likely that he was a widower by that time.

In the 1990s Whitehouse wrote a fictional trilogy about a female cousin of Jesus, including The Book of Deborah.

Whitehouse's novel The Miracle Man, an updated version of the story of Christ, was published in November 2010.

From 1993 to 2009 Whitehouse studied the Toledano Tradition of Kabbalah with Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi (Warren Kenton). She has acknowledged Kenton as the inspiration for her books on Kabbalah, which she calls "primers" for Kenton's own work.

Whitehouse studied New Testament Greek at Birmingham University for a year with Mark Goodacre and David Parker. She became an interfaith funeral minister in 2003. In 2007 she was ordained into the Apostolic Church of the Risen Christ, an Independent Catholic church, part of the Ascension Alliance.

Whitehouse presented the Sunday morning breakfast show on BBC Radio Devon between August 2016 and October 2017.{{cite web|title=Maggy Whitehouse|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0456006/episodes/guide|website=BBC Radio Devon|accessdate=30 October 2016}}

She worked as breakfast presenter for BBC Radio WM and Hereward Radio in the 1980s and as assistant producer on BBC Pebble Mill At One.

In 1989, Whitehouse presented and co-produced the documentary Manchuria Express,{{cite web|title=Manchuria Express| website=YouTube | date=6 June 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_fyWaJcYI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/j7_fyWaJcYI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live}} about steam engines in China as part of Channel 4's 'Voyager' series. Her father Patrick Whitehouse was an advisor on the series.{{cite news |title=Patrick Whitehouse |work=The Times |date=17 August 1993 |page=17}}

• Living Kabbalah. Hamlyn (2004). {{ISBN|978-0-600-60970-4}}
• Into the Kingdom (Chronicles of Deborah). Tree of Life Publishing (2007). {{ISBN|978-1-905806-17-1}}
• The Marriage of Jesus. O Books (2007). {{ISBN|978-1-84694-008-8}}
• The Secret History of Opus Dei. Lorenz Books (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-7548-1699-7}}
• Total Kabbalah: Bring Balance and Happiness into Your Life. Chronicle Books (2007). {{ISBN|978-0-8118-6137-3}}
• The Complete Illustrated History of Kabbalah. Lorenz Books (2008). {{ISBN|978-0-7548-1765-9}}
• From Credit Crunch to Pure Prosperity. O Books (2009). {{ISBN|978-1-84694-328-7}}
• The Spiritual Laws of Prosperity. Tree of Life Publishing (2009). {{ISBN|978-1-905806-37-9}}
• The Miracle Man. O Books (Nov 2010). {{ISBN|978-1-84694-416-1}}
• A Woman's Worth, the Divine Feminine in the Hebrew Bible. {{ISBN|978-1780998343}}
• For the Love of Dog. {{ISBN |978-1905806485}}

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• [http://www.maggywhitehouse.com/ Maggy Whitehouse website.]
• [http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Stand-comedian-priest-Maggy-revelation/story-27924049-detail/story.html Article in West Magazine]
• [http://www.comedycv.co.uk/maggywhitehouse/index.html Comedy CV.]
• [http://theweereview.com/review/the-maggy-whitehouse-experience/ The Wee Review (formerly TV Bomb) on The Maggy Whitehouse Experience]
• [https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/1-march/news/uk/white-collar-comedians-take-to-the-stage/ The Church Times on White Collar Comedy]
• [https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/10-may/features/features/divine-comedy-being-a-priest-and-a-comedian/ The Church Times]

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