Welcome to the Friday show. Thank you very much for joining us today. Friday sometimes are a bit of a grab bag. We have episodes where we talk about the current events that are going on. Sometimes there's so much in the news, either with India, Pakistan or Russia, Ukraine or something else where we're going to dive into that. Sometimes we do the behind the scenes, but other times we have special guests and we get to talk about some subjects that are near and dear to me and maybe things that you haven't heard about, haven't talked about, but are pretty interesting.

So today we get to do that.

We get to talk a little bit about some trends within the church and some of the movement that we're seeing.

And frankly, I'm kind of glad that we're

having this conversation because it's necessary and it's been kind of long overdue. The church in

America is definitely changing. And a lot of times that change is for the positive and results

in really, really good movements in the church. And sometimes that change actually

pushes things in a direction that we don't necessarily want them to go. And I'll be a little bit

more clear once we jump into the subject here. But one of the trends that I have noticed is

women kind of making up the majority of the congregations in certain kind of denominations, right?

So in the Catholic Church, that's true, according to a recent Pew study,

mostly dominated by women, definitely in the Protestant Church, that's true,

in the mainland Protestant Church, also in the black Protestant Church.

It's very true.

It makes up a very significant majority of the church.

And there are a couple of exceptions to this

rule. And one of the reasons that I want to talk about that is because men do need to take more

of a leadership role when it comes to faith. We need to make sure that we're not allowing churches

to just not necessarily just be run by women, but we don't want women to have to take this role

that God has given to men, to kind of be the leaders in faith. And we need more men to be

involved in church and to be going to church and to be leading in church. And that's a very,

very important topic. So the two groups, not really in Christianity. One of them is, one of them kind of is Christian adjacent, the Mormons. I'm sorry, guys, you understand we have some issues, right? So predominantly male. And I think I understand the recruiting brochure there is a little different. You know, sometimes not everybody does the polygamy thing. Maybe not anybody anymore, but, you know, that's kind of a thing. That's a good selling point. And then the Orthodox Church, I think it's something like 60% men, 40% women,

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