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 to the Edinburgh Fringe. She was a finalist in the 2015 UK Funny Women Awards,. In 2018 she joined forces with two Anglican clergy, Rev. Ravi Holy of the Wye Benefice and Rev. Kate Bruce, RAF Chaplain to form White Collar Comedy. The three will be performing at Edinburgh Fringe from 1 to 10 August 2019 at Sofi's Southside.

Whitehouse presented the Sunday morning breakfast show on BBC Radio Devon between August 2016 and October 2017. 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 about steam engines in China as part of Channel 4's 'Voyager' series.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Maggy Whitehouse (born 1956) is an Independent Sacramental priest, a stand-up comedian a broadcaster and an author and specialist in Judaeo-Christian mysticism, particularly Bible interpretation for Interfaith.