We Can Do Hard Things Women’s Voices So Dangerous They Buried Them: Meggan Watterson
Nov 25, 2025
In this insightful conversation, Meggan Watterson—a Harvard-trained feminist theologian and bestselling author—delves into the erased gospels of women leaders. She discusses the cultural impact of silencing women's voices and the powerful stories of figures like Mary Magdalene and Thecla. Meggan reveals how these narratives challenge patriarchal structures and celebrate feminine divinity. She offers a soul-voice meditation and emphasizes the importance of reclaiming feminine love and inner power for true spiritual connection.
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Divine Feminine Restores Vision
- The divine feminine offers a corrective lens to a male-dominated image of God and restores a fuller vision of the divine.
- Erasing women's spiritual voices forced generations to doubt inner perception and silence their own truth.
Buried Texts Decentralized Power
- Many early gospels that taught inward access to the divine were labeled apocryphal and buried under imperial edicts.
- Recovered texts show love and spiritual authority were meant to be decentralized from empire and hierarchy.
Mary Magdalene's Inner Vision
- In the Gospel of Mary, Mary receives secret teachings and perceives Christ through the 'mind' or spiritual eye of the heart.
- Her faith in inner vision models direct access to the divine and explains why she was first at the empty tomb.
