Center-left media outlets know they can gin up a couple of curiosity- or hate-based clicks by periodically profiling some new “trend” in the upper-middle-class mating scene. “Ethical nonmonogamy” has had its day, “polyamory memoirs” get respectful reviews, and major broadcast networks know they can pull in some rubberneckers curious about pairings that go from “Couple to Throuple.” After all, once society has deconstructed marriage down to the point of meaninglessness, why should we have any compunction about celebrating such creative alternatives to bourgeois fidelity?

A recent American Enterprise Institute (AEI) study indicates that, for the first time on record, more young men than women are attending church. The difference, while unprecedented, is small: 34 percent of Gen Z men are religiously unaffiliated, as opposed to 40 percent of Gen Z women. But commentators are united in befuddlement about why this reversal has taken place. They worry that this could point to—and exacerbate—a growing masculinization of churches, rather than a healthy increase in religious parity between men and women.