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Check out this headlines from the past decade:\xa0\u201cWhy Don\u2019t Most Men Go to Church?\u201d Christian Century, October 2011 \u201cWhy Men Still Hate Going to Church\u201d CT Pastors, Summer 2012 \u201c7 Actions to Engage Men in Your Church\u201d\xa0Pastors.com, March 2014 \u201cWhy Do Men Hate Church and What Can Be Done About It?\u201d The Tennessean, Jan 2015 Mending Men\u2019s Ministry, Christianity Today, June 2018 And then there\u2019s a newsletter,\xa0The Masculinist, which reflects on a monthly basis on the factors driving men men from church.\xa0Aaron Renn, The Masculinist\u2019s author and creator, said the idea for his project came both from the knowledge that church attendance skewed female and the realization\xa0a number of non-Christian writers, authors, and cultural commentators were grabbing this group\u2019s attention.\xa0\u201cWhat is it that all of these people are reaching men with essentially a secular self-help message and the [church\u2019s message] isn\u2019t working?\u201d said Renn. \u201c...When I became a Christian I maybe naively took everything in. I felt like the teachings that I was getting about how to be a man and how to interact with women and things of that nature frankly were just not working.\u201d His unhappiness with his church\u2019s teachings led Renn to ask a lot of questions and ultimately \u201creformulate\u201d himself as a man.\xa0Renn joined associate digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss why how churches can still be unwelcoming to men despite the fact that men still hold most church pastoral positions, whether this reality of fewer men at church is true when factored by\xa0class, race, or education level, and how Christian piety became gendered.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices