`Macho' Christianity
(from the Daily Telegraph 6th May '09)
Male worshippers like to sing "proper macho songs" in church and feel uncomfortable with hugging, holding hands or sitting in circles discussing their feelings, according to a study. A survey of readers of the Christian men's magazine Sorted found 60 per cent did not like flowers and embroidered banners in church. A similar number preferred "proclamational" hymns to emotional songs.
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