Too much estrogen and not enough testosterone: The Church has become impotent

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Three books to consider to better understand why real MEN don’t want to be seen in a church these days.

First I would like to mention The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity by Leon Podles

Why don’t men go to church anymore? Why are the most common traits of the modern Church doves and quilts and little old ladies? ... When divorced from masculinity, the Church emasculated fades into universalism and quietism, the effects of which run rampant through the Western Church of today. In "The Church Impotent," Dr. Leon Podles examines, with meticulous scholarship, three aspects of Christianity through which its virility might be restored.

Next on the list we have Why Men Hate Going to Church by David Murrow

“Church is boring.” “It’s irrelevant.” “It’s full of hypocrites.” You’ve heard the excuses—now learn the real reasons men and boys are fleeing churches of every kind, all over the world, and what we can do about it.

And lastly we have Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 by Clifford Putney

Dissatisfied with a Victorian culture focused on domesticity and threatened by physical decline in sedentary office jobs, American men in the late nineteenth century sought masculine company in fraternal lodges and engaged in exercise to invigorate their bodies. One form of this new manly culture, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. In this fascinating study, Clifford Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.