February Theme: What the World Needs Now "Crumbs Are No Longer Delicious: Reclaiming Our Inner Power" What the world needs now is not more power struggles, louder voices, or borrowed authority—it needs people who are stable in their own embodied truth. Across religions and wisdom traditions, the teaching echoes: Ask and you shall receive. Yet what if receiving begins when we stop accepting crumbs from systems that were never meant to nourish us? This talk draws from the radical early Christian story of Thecla—a young woman who refused to “move on with life as is,” and in doing so discovered a power no institution could grant or revoke: the power of love alive within her.