Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

I think the most threatening aspect of Thecla’s story is that she frees herself from any illusions that power resides outside of her.

In saving herself, Thecla has unified the force of love in all the women around her. In freeing herself, she has freed them.

lost. There was a piece of me that felt missing. An elusive, ephemeral, and yet essential piece of me. Without it, I felt like I was watching my life happen. I was witnessing it, but I wasn’t really present in it. I was perpetually caught up in my own thoughts.

Our spiritual voices were hidden in plain daylight. In print.

She baptized herself because she realized she could. She realized that all along within her she contained the power to save herself. And so she did.

Unless my spirituality is intersectional, it’s just oppression dressed in light.

There is no hierarchy in the spiritual world.

I think perceiving the good takes practice.

Or the message as I have come to believe in it; that we are not inherently sinful, or unworthy in any way, and that we shouldn’t feel shame for how human we are, or how often we break, lose faith, and make wildly misguided mistakes.