As recently as 2025, 43 percent of men reported attending church weekly compared with 36 percent of women — the largest gender gap Barna had recorded in 25 years of tracking.
Think about how unusual that is.
Church leaders spent decades asking how Christianity could reconnect with men. Now teenage boys are out-attending teenage girls in youth groups, young men’s religious interest is rising sharply, and adult men are attending church at higher rates than women.
But there is another side to this story.