{"id":172,"date":"2026-11-03T20:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T20:36:59","slug":"qa-is-faith-feminine-why-us-churches-have-men-in-pulpits-women-in-pews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Is faith feminine? Why US churches have men in pulpits, women in pews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 17px;line-height: 1.8;color: #334155;margin-bottom: 25px\">Working as a Christian minister years ago, Landon Schnabel noticed a paradox common to many U.S. churches: Men filled leadership roles, implying that religion is masculine and patriarchal, but many more women participated in services, Bible study and other activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-qa-faith-feminine-churches-men.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:12px 26px;background:#0f172a;color:#ffffff;font-weight:700;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none\">Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working as a Christian minister years ago, Landon Schnabel noticed a paradox common to many U.S. churches: Men filled leadership roles, implying that religion is masculine and patriarchal, but many more women participated in services, Bible study and other activities. Read Full Story on Source &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roynewsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}