Ryan Burge

There's less than a million people going to Orthodox church in America.

Of a country of 330 million people, Southern Baptists, there's 7 million Southern Baptists who go to church every Sunday.

So like, let's put things in their proper orbit.

My job is to sort of like not look at the outliers, it's to look at the middle of the distribution.

And I think the reality is what's gonna happen in the future is my church at the end, it was 75% women.

And I think that's what a lot of these churches are dealing with right now, because they're older and women tend to live longer than men do.

I think that balance might sort of get closer to evening out over time.

But I still think the reality is that American religion, mainstream American religion is still going to be majority female.

Because boomer women are more religious than boomer men and Gen X and millennials.

So this is a small trend that we would need to see continue for decades to actually see a difference you would feel on the ground if you went to an average church.

I mean, a 50-50 is a good outcome, but you've got to understand the types of Christianity that are still dominant in American life, which is evangelicalism and the Catholic Church, are both male-dominated across the board.

Exactly right.

The pews, it's a lot more women in the pulpits.

It's a lot.

It's almost all men like that.

That is not that is not changing demonstrably, I think, over the next 20 or 30 years.

But I will say it's probably not a bad thing if you're a young man or a young woman trying to find someone to marry and have kids and build a life with when there's.

50-50 young men and young women in the pews.

In that way, I think it's actually a very good thing.

If you walked into a church and it was 90% Gen Z men and 10% Gen Z women, that's a real problem.