The idea that community is what people really want out of society resonated with me because I grew up in a very conservative Baptist Christian church with a right agenda. It wasn't something I understood as a child, but it was something I grew to hate as a teenager. I was criticized without words by the church. I could feel it in the aisles as I walked down them. To question God was to question the unquestionable and the only reason I was questioning my beliefs was to find common ground with someone, to know that my feelings of resentment for what was thrown at me from the pit was justified... understandable... normal. Much like the speaker I found myself figuring out that it wasn't religion that called to me, but the communal aspect of religion that I craved. What the church offered me as a child was a group of people to turn to in times of need, both happy and sad. What became an issue was the gender roles of the community. The speaker discussed their MC job as being taken over by a man, but what if the role could never be given to a woman, no matter how talented or knowledgeable. Looking at roles in the church, does God give only certain jobs to women? Can community be equal? Is our need for community locked into our social constructions? Is religion genderless?