Meggan Watterson

And so they start throwing cardamom and rose petals and nard into the arena.

And they help Thekla save herself.

But she baptizes herself first.

And that's that part which I feel like coming through you is so powerful that you're saying we have to believe ourselves.

We can't wait for somebody to say you are worthy of being believed.

We have to decide right now that we are worthy.

and have always been worthy of being believed.

We have to decide that we are going, we're not gonna wait for men to believe us, right?

To believe survivors, to believe Mary.

We are going to decide right now that we are gonna go ahead and believe in each other instead.

You reached out to me when you were reading The Girl Who Baptized Herself and you said, I'm only on page five and I'm already crying.

Mm-hmm.

I've wondered if it can be articulated, if you're okay with sharing.

What made you cry?

Just crying right now.

Thinking of it.

It's just so powerful to me because there's such divine reciprocity because that's who you are to me.

It's like you seeing me, you know, I really have felt crazy.

And to be told by major media outlets that

what I write is not real theology.