Why Men Hate Going to Church

by David Murrow

SO WHO’S TO BLAME FOR CHRISTIANITY’S GENDER GAP? MEN? Women? Pastors? Musicians? Authors? Businessmen? Yes. We’re all part of a religious delivery system that reaches more women than men. Most Christians are happy with this system. It works for us. We’ve gotten used to Christianity being the way it is, and frankly, we can’t imagine it any other way. Jesus encountered a religious delivery system that worked well for insiders—everyone else be cursed. And it angered him. He said to the Pharisees, “You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.”