Last updated 12/28/2024
Part of the Christian Kyriarchy Project
Some right-wing Christians have complained the church have become ”feminized” or ”sissified”. The bulk of these complaints is that churches appeal too much to women and not enough to manly men.
Uncritical examples:
The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity by Leon J. Podles (originally published in 1999)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive (the last two contain just the index, not the actual book)
Church: Perfectly Designed for Women? | David Murrow (June 2021)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Soft, Effeminate Christianity | The Council On Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (December 2011)
Bryan Fischer: Firefighters did the Christian thing in letting house burn to the ground | Rightly Concerned (October 2010)
Archived on Wayback Machine and Archive.today
The Feminization of the Church by Holly Pivec | Biola Magazine (February 2006)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
The Feminization of Christianity by Brett & Kate McKay | The Art Of Manliness (no date on article, earliest archives are from September 2021)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
A Feminized Faith by P. Andrew Sandlin | Chalecon Foundation (February 1998)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
The Feminization of the Church | Edie Wadsworth (February 2009)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
#341 The Feminization of Christianity | Reasonable Faith with William Lane Craig (October 2013)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
The Feminization (And Decline) Of Religion by Rod Dreher | The American Conservative (April 2018)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
If the church is 'feminized,' most men want out by Terry Mattingly | Knoxsville News Sentinel (October 2016)
Archived on Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke on the Catholic ”Man-crisis” and what to do about it | The New Emangelization (January 2015)
Archived on Wayback Machine and Archive.today
Grandma-cracy? How older women take over churches | David Murrow (May 2024)
Archived Wayback Machine, Archive.today, and Ghost Archive
Commentary:
What the ”Effeminate Christianity” crisis says about women | Sarah Over The Moon (January 2012)
An Introduction to Bro-Dude Christianity by Captain Cassidy | Roll To Disbelieve (September 2020)
Hyper-Muscular Christianity by Joseph Laycock | Whosoever. (March 2009)
Do Women Make Men Do Things? 1A, ”Feminizing the Church” | Not Peer Reviewed: By Laura Robinson (May 2023)
Gen Z women are leaving religion behind. Right-wing Christians aren't thrilled by Captain Cassidy | Roll To Disbelieve (July 2024)
Christian misogyny and sexism documents
various | misogyny in purity culture | antifeminism and related | saying women should always be submissive to male leaders | gender essentialism | rejecting feminine and gender neutral terms for God | complaints about the church being feminized
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