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January 9, 2007
Why men hate going to Church?
I've just handed in my review of "Why men hate going to church" for publication in the next edition of the Diocesan Newspaper (you see I can do deadlines sometimes). David Murrow's thesis is that church culture and practice has been feminised and that it's meant that Church is a place that has become uncomfortable for blokes (guys for U.S readers). I'll post the full review once the paper is out but it's a book that raises important questions and valid critiques of our ecclesiology. (I should add that the author is in no way attaching this to the ordination of women, merely to the attributes that Church seems to have embraced)
Straw poll though:
If you are a guy, are there bits of Church that you find difficult/awkward by nature of being male (and all that that means).
As a woman, are there attributes of Church that you can see that you love BUT would be alienating to men?
(I realise there's a whole bunch of stuff where Male leadership has been a barrier to women but we'll do that debate seperately)
Posted by ian at January 9, 2007 10:29 AM