Fatherhood and the Church
June 18, 2026
The central demographic fact of many modern American congregations is this: Men in church on an ordinary Sunday are outnumbered and aging. The American church has been stripped of much of its male presence.
The culture has noticed men’s absence and rushed to profit from it: the podcast strongmen, the testosterone clinics, the influencers peddling discipline and dominance—all selling at a markup the claim that they can restore a place for masculinity. That’s something the church offered and then abandoned. Men never stopped craving greatness. They stopped expecting it at the altar.
