Question of the Week #971: Why So Few Testimonials from Women?
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I looked at the names of the testimonies you posted. |
| 0:17.0 | Don't women respond to you or do you not post their testimonies? |
| 0:21.7 | What is your position on women in ministry? |
| 0:24.7 | I could not find the information in your statement of faith. |
| 0:28.5 | Carolyn, United States. |
| 0:30.3 | The answer to your question, Carolyn, is clear. |
| 0:34.5 | Women do not respond to me. |
| 0:42.3 | Or should I say to my material? If you look, for example, at the analytics for our Reasonable Faithorg YouTube channel, you will find that 91.5% of our |
| 0:51.3 | viewers are male. Our Dr. Craig Video's channel has an audience that is 86.4% male. |
| 1:01.2 | So while we are eager to post testimonials from women, we just do not receive as many as we do from men. |
| 1:11.3 | I think that our strongly rational approach to Christian faith does not resonate as strongly |
| 1:18.8 | with women as it does with men. We find that the people who most greatly appreciate our |
| 1:25.9 | material tend to be engineers. I am not trying to tailor my |
| 1:33.3 | material to be more appealing to women, but I'm defending the truth as I see it and letting the chips |
| 1:40.6 | fall where they may. I don't think that our predominant appeal to men is a bad thing, |
| 1:47.3 | given how feminized and matriarchal the American church has become. We desperately need |
| 1:54.4 | ministries that will draw men into our churches. Concerning the role of women in ministry, I should say on the basis of Paul's |
| 2:05.5 | teaching in 2.12, that in the context of the local church, women should not be in a position of |
| 2:15.6 | teaching doctrine to men. |
| 2:18.8 | But they may, of course, be involved in a multitude of other ministries. You know, |
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