Conservative Men Are Happier, Healthier, and More Religious Than Liberal Men
April 22, 2026
Something shifted in American churches around 2023, and the data are only now catching up to what pastors had already begun to notice: young men were coming back.
The latest Gallup release, drawn from telephone surveys conducted across 2024 and 2025, published April 2026, puts numbers to it. For the first time in the 25-year history of the question, men ages 18-29 are more likely than women the same age to describe religion as “very important” in their lives. Forty-two percent of young men say so, against 30 percent of young women. A 14-point swing upward for men since 2022-2023. A historic low for women.
