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One of the oldest features of Christianity has been its appeal to women. Women swelled the ranks of the

early church which stood out as it reflected just how Jesus had treated women. He

talked to women in public, he defended them against accusers, he appeared to them first after his

resurrection.

All of this at a time when women were widely treated as property and inferior to men.

Today, however, women in America seem to be abandoning

Christian observance more quickly than men are. Political scientist Ryan Burge,

co-author of a book called The Great D. Churchurching, recently shared survey data which showed

that college-educated men are now more likely to attend church weekly than

college-educated women. Now back in 2008, 36% of women with at least a four-year degree attended church weekly

compared with only 34% of men with a degree.

But by 2023, just 27% of college educated women attended church weekly, that compared to

32% of men.

Even among those who attended only some college, men still led in church attendance. It was only among those

with a high school diploma or less that women are still more likely than men to

attend church services. Now obviously church attendance has been declining significantly for both sexes for a while now.

However, the drop among educated women is disproportionately high and it also coincides with something else, the left word lurch and how women identify politically.

Earlier this year, polling data from Gallup showed that the percentage of men, age 18 to 29,

who identify as Republican had risen by double digits in the last

decade but over the same period the share of young women particularly white

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