{"id":7632,"date":"2019-06-20T16:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:26:04","slug":"the-missing-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-missing-men-7632.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/SEP-Men.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[7632]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/SEP-Men.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/SEP-Men.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/SEP-Men-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am aware of the dangers of confirmation bias, but I have never come across any anecdotes or statistics that purport to show that men, not women, are the predominant members of church congregations.<\/p>\n<p>In John Gunstone\u2019s <em>Lift High the Cross: Anglo-Catholics and the Congress Movement<\/em> I came across this in the section on the 1930 Congress:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRosenthal pointed out that twice as many women went to church as men\u2026. He referred to the practice (in cheches where men and women sat on opposite sides of the central aisle) of men going to the communion rail first, and he quoted what a woman had said about it: \u2018No doubt it is on the same principle as that on which men give precedence to women in the world; in church, poor dears, men are the weaker sex.\u2019 There was much truth, he said, in the satirical verse:<\/p>\n<p>In the conflict for Religion,<br \/>\nIn the turmoil and the strife,<br \/>\nYou will find the Christian soldier<br \/>\nRepresented by his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7632\" data-postid=\"7632\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7632 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am aware of the dangers of confirmation bias, but I have never come across any anecdotes or statistics that purport to show that men, not women, are the predominant members of church congregations. In John Gunstone\u2019s Lift High the Cross: Anglo-Catholics and the Congress Movement I came across this in the section on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-in-church","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}