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And he’s talking about a kind of love she hasn’t known before—a love that asks her to be true to who she is within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Watterson, a Harvard-trained feminist theologian, Thecla’s story in The Acts of Paul and Thecla has everything to do with power. Thecla’s refusal to be controlled, as well as the authority she reclaims by baptizing herself, reads like a lost gospel for finding our own source of power within. A power that allows us to know who we are and to make choices based on that knowing. This hidden scripture suggests that Christianity before the fourth century was about defying the patriarchy, not deifying it. 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Thecla’s story offers us a path to take back the power we often give to others and live based on the truth of who we are.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":44548684578895,"sku":"20119687","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0567\/6279\/4063\/files\/e1b512c5-5569-4a61-8f0a-6af4cedc8897.jpg?v=1776377948"},{"product_id":"reveal-a-sacred-manual-for-getting-spiritually-naked","title":"Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel \u0026 the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet","description":"The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story from the one we've come to refer to as Christianity. 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In fact, our purpose is to be fully human, to be a \"true human being\"- that is, a person who has remembered that, yes, we are a messy, limited ego, and we are also a limitless soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd all we need to do is to turn inward (again and again); to meditate, like Mary Magdalene, in the way her gospel directs us, so that we can see past the ego of our own little lives to what's more real, and lasting, and infinite, and already here, within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith searing clarity, Watterson explains how and why Mary Magdalene came to be portrayed as the penitent prostitute and relates a more historically and theologically accurate depiction of who Mary was within the early Christ movement. And she shares how this discovery of Mary's gospel has allowed her to practice, and to experience, a love that never ends, a love that transforms everything.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Each","offer_id":44548684677199,"sku":"20119688","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0567\/6279\/4063\/files\/25cee6a2-ab88-4e09-8824-77456e97a216.jpg?v=1776377453"},{"product_id":"the-divine-feminine-oracle","title":"The Divine Feminine Oracle","description":"The Divine Feminine Oracle contains 53 saints, mystics, poets, priestesses, gender rebels, cross-dressers, trailblazers, and holy troublemakers who represent both divine beings and the human women who sought to embody them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe potency of this oracle rests in the variety of images of the divine feminine, not just religious diversity, but also race, culture, gender identity, mythology, and geographic location. And also, all aspects of the divine feminine, from what’s considered light to dark, are exalted in this oracle. The red thread that connects them all is the legacy of love they each represent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a connection between our ideas of the divine and the status of women. If the divine is understood to be exclusively male, and is referred to only as the father, then men and the masculine are of higher stature while women and the feminine are valued less. This imbalance harms us all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere have always been just as many holy ladies as men. We simply haven’t lived in a time that holds the feminine and the female as sacred as the masculine and male. 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At a sacred site of the Black Madonna in Europe, Watterson had a revelation that changed her. Rather than transcending the body, denying or ignoring it, being spiritual for her meant accepting her body as sacred. Only then, Watterson realized could she hear the voice of unfaltering love inside her- the voice of her soul. With passion, humor, and brutal honesty, Watterson draws on ancient stories and lesser-known texts of the divine feminine, like The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, making them modern and accessible to reveal the spiritual process she went through. She suggests that being spiritual is simply about stripping down to the truth of who we really are. Through her extensive work with women, Watterson found that she was not alone. There are countless women who long for a spirituality that encourages embodiment rather than denies it, that inspires them to abandon their fears but never themselves, and to be led by the audacious and fiercely loving voice of truth inside them. No matter where you rest on the spectrum of spirituality; religious or secular, devout believer or chronic doubter, freelance mystic or borderline agnostic, this story is about the desire in all of us to want to shed everything that holds us back. Reveal provides what religions have left out-the spiritual voice of a woman who has claimed her body as sacred-a woman who has found the divine insider her. 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