 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. I was walking through the New York Public Library one day when I came across a book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans.