The Girl Who Baptized Herself: How a Lost Scripture About a Saint Named Thecla Montel Williams A mind-expanding literary debut composed

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The Girl Who Baptized Herself: How a Lost Scripture About a Saint Named Thecla Montel Williams A mind-expanding literary debut composedThis riveting exploration of a nearly lost first century scripture tells the story of a courageous saint named Thecla and offers us a road map to knowing our worth. A teenage girl named Thecla is sitting at her bedroom window listening to a man share stories nearby. Her mother and fianc order her to stop. But Thecla, trapped in a world that expects her to marry and have children, refuses. This man, Paul, is talking about a world she wants to believe