I sat down with Amy Brown Hughes and Lynn H. Cohick to talk about their book Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries (Baker, 2017). We discuss responsible remembering, the emphasis on martyrdom, asceticism, virginity, and the renunciation (or at least creative use) of money during the era, the ways women were impacting the developing the dynamic theology of the early church, how Thecla “becomes what any specific generation of the church needs her to be”, and which woman from the era needs their own, sprawling, high-budget mini-series whatever streaming platform needs quality content.