Church is for Women?

I don't think so, but apparently there is a growing contingent of Canadian men who do. David Murrow, who wrote Why Men Hate Going to Church, is quoted in the Winnipeg Free Press as saying that:

"'Christianity's primary delivery system, the local church, is perfectly designed to reach women,' he says of the warm colours, robes, candles, flowers, sharing, tapestries, long sermons and soft, romantic worship music that are the hallmarks of many churches today. 'This church system offers little to stir the masculine heart, so men find it dull and irrelevant,' he states, adding that men who do go to church seem passive and bored."


There you have it. As one of those "passive and bored" (I'm not - well OK, I may be boring) male churchgoers, I have to take some issue with Mr. Murrow's analysis based on my experience, but it is certainly worth further investigation inasmuch as there is a pronounced drop off in participation by thirty-something males and this does not bode well for the Church.

www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/faith/no-men-in-the-pews-could-be-churchs-fault-102210019.html