For some reason, this information shocked me. I had been tacitly accepting that women were banned from certain roles in the church for years. But the absurdity of a woman not being allowed to say, Randy, you’ve got the fifth; Isaiah, you’re the twelfth; Oh, you’ve got a wedding out of state that day? Okay, Randy can you swap with Isaiah? Great, made all of the rules about what women were and were not allowed to be and do seem suddenly crazy to me.

