Paul's Teaching on Sex Liberated Thekla. For the Rest of Us, It's More Complicated.
My women's group read The Acts of Paul and Thekla aloud. My margin notes said "Sex? No sex? WTF?????" This essay is about what happens when a woman with a complicated past finally reckons with Paul.
The Men Who Silenced Asherah Still Silence Women Today
When they rewrote the stories, making her into a foreign invader, they didn’t just erase a goddess. They erased what it meant to have a woman at the center of holiness and of power.
Mary and the Ancient Goddesses of Death and Rebirth
Across cultures, divine mothers govern life, death, and rebirth. Placing Mary alongside figures like Isis, Demeter, and Kali reveals her as part of an ancient spiritual pattern—the mother who transforms grief into resurrection.
