 Eventually, the board of the church ordained my mother lead minister. And when they did, many of our church members left. In many ways, the church broke my heart in those moments. But perhaps you can say I left the church too. I came back to America for college, went to law school, began a career in public policy and global development. I also found that my views about gender and womanhood were really evolving from the views of the church that I had grown up in.