Ryan Burge

It's mostly a Christian thing, that women are more religious than men.

What's funny is we don't know why.

Like there's all these interesting theories about biological theories.

There's anthropological theories like women needed someone to help them take care of the kids and church provided this kind of social safety net for them.

We don't really know why.

We just know that women are more religious than men.

But what we're seeing, interestingly enough, among Gen Z is that women are still leaving the church at an incredibly rapid rate.

And men are still leaving, but at a slower rate.

And what that ends up being is the religiosity of Gen Z men and women is probably about the same now.

It's not that men are returning to church.

This is a really important point.

The data does not say.

Some men are.

Some men are.

But in the aggregate.

In the aggregate.

We're not seeing Gen Z men become more religious.

It's just they're secularizing slower than young women are.

And that's allowing those lines to cross when it comes to religiosity.

I think the Orthodox story is interesting, don't get me wrong, but we have to put them in context.