 But in the months following his death, I found that my mother was being subjected to all kinds of conversations. See, there was all this talk in the church about the impropriety of a woman leading the church. It seemed natural to me that my mother would take over leading the church. They had built it together in every sense of the word. But people pointed to Bible scriptures and they said, this is sacrilege, this is improper, and so on and so forth.