While you were watching Gen Z men fill the pews, you may have missed that Gen Z women are quietly walking out the back door, and the data is hard to ignore. A recent report from the Public Religion Research Institute found that 43% of women under 30 now identify as religiously unaffiliated—up from 29% in 2013. That’s not a blip. That’s a generational shift happening in real time, and it’s showing up in Southern Baptist churches across the country whether we acknowledge it or not. This is not an article about the SBC’s position on women in ministry. Faithful Baptists can know what they believe and why and still have a serious, Gospel-driven conversation about why young women are leaving and what the church can do about it. Those are different conversations, and confusing them helps no one. This one is about what happens in the pews, in the…
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