Are church ladies a problem?
The Wall Street Journal had an article on 'Church ladies'. Are church ladies a problem? 61% of all churches are females. Is this a problem?

World Magazine Blog has some commentary here.

I personally appreciate his review of Murrows book, 'Why Men Hate to Go to Church'.

'Murrow overlooks a simple answer to the question of why church is more appealing to women than to men: its domesticating influence. Why else did pioneer women who helped settle the West make one of their first priorities the erection of churches? This leads to another observation, albeit an unpopular one in our age of gender egalitarianism: For as long as women have tried to tame and domesticate men, men have resisted. Understood this way, perhaps the lack of men in the pews is not so much cause for alarm as it is an affirmation of that unspeakable truth--men and women are different.'

Makes me think of the the old country song, 'You can't keep a good man, down....Oh no!' (locked up in one church building for 30 years....choosing comfort over Christ). Kinda hard to be wild at heart and truely engaged, sitting on the secure, passive-padded pew/chair every week?

Church planting anyone?