Meggan Watterson

So for me, it's like, what is falling?

What we can allow...

ourselves to completely unplug from is the Christianity that was established in the fourth century under the patriarchy, right?

So when that falls, what becomes visible is the Christianity that existed before it.

And what I want to say is that spiritually for women, we've already seen ourselves unite.

We've already seen ourselves beat an empire.

We've already triumphed.

It's in the Acts of Paul and Thecla.

It's just that Thecla was erased and her scripture was deemed of doubtful authenticity.

But we've already seen it happen where women come together, women who represent the ones who have the least amount of power, and they prove that...

There is a power greater than an empire built by men that exists in the heart of a little girl who is loved, who is fully loved, which means an entire arena of women.

When they see Thecla claim her worth, right, which comes from within, everything comes from within, they watch her walk.

Model that no one can control her.

No one ever could control her.

She claims her worth.

She baptizes herself, which to me means, okay, she decides I don't have to wait for Paul to figure out that I'm worthy of being baptized.

I can claim my worth within me and I can baptize myself and give myself the power and the authority to lead.

So the women in the arena see Thecla do this and they're like, I am being controlled by the ideas of what I'm allowed to do because I'm female, because the world around me sees me as less than.

I don't have to be controlled.

I'm not controlled.