
S7E333 - Why Women Were Taught to Distrust Themselves — And How to Take That Power Back with Meggan Watterson
Published: April 1, 2026
Duration: 1:16:32
What if the reason you don't trust yourself was engineered centuries ago — on purpose?
In this episode, Dr. Mindy Pelz sits down with feminist theologian and author Meggan Watterson to uncover the deliberate suppression of women's inner authority and what reclaiming it looks like right now.
Meggan draws on 30 years of scholarship — including the long-buried Gospel of Mary and the Acts of Paul and Thecla — to show that the most powerful women in early Christianity weren't lost to history by accident. They were erased because their message was too dangerous: that the greatest power doesn't come f...