Because smallness in the church may not be about gene size like Skinny Talk, but it can be just as damaging, if not more damaging, because it's an identity.

It's about how we are honoring the ways women were created and supporting and equipping them rather than sending the same message of emotional and spiritual smallness that often mimics our culture's obsession with physical smallness.

Talking today about skinny talk and an epidemic of small,

why the church needs to lead this conversation differently,

continuing our series on women.

And if you haven't listened to our previous shows on women,

please go back and do that because they're really critical

for the next conversations that we'll have about women, including this show.

And I think if you haven't listened to those shows, you might misunderstand to a degree

my views on women and the church.

If you don't know where I'm coming from in this series on women, I don't want you to do that.

I hope you won't do that. So I wanted to from in this series on women. I don't want you to do that. I hope you

won't do that. So I wanted to sort of lay the groundwork in, like my show on Biblical

Womanhood that I hope you've listened to. Before we got into some more specific topics like

today and like the other shows that we'll air, because these are really tough topics that I strongly believe that the church needs to explore,

largely because women are already talking about these things, but also historically, at least statistically, women make up for at least 60% of church congregations.

And also, I personally believe, and this is just my belief, I can't really back this up,

except maybe slightly in statistics, I personally believe that the things that we're going to

be talking about in these shows are leading, at least in part,

to why now younger women are starting to leave the church. A Barna study recently reported

that women's regular church attendance has fallen behind men's for the first time, 43% to 36%. And it is the largest gender gap that Barna has ever

recorded. Well, why is that? I think that's important to take a look at. I think that the shows

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