We use whatever technical means we have. I certainly think that TV and radio have replaced these earlier kinds of letter-writing communities. For some segments of the population the Internet has that function as well. But today television is probably most crucial. A. Well, I have certainly found a lot more women then men writing in for these handkerchiefs, and writing into these periodicals for healing.
Men write in, but their letters tend to be shorter and less detailed.
It's probably about a two to one ratio. The standard line is that there were more women who were actively involved than there were men. There are so many letters coming into these periodicals from women whose husbands were not Christians, who drink too much, who desert them-but the letters writers may be a special case. A lot of men were there, perhaps on the fringes of things, not quite as actively involved, but still coming to all the meetings. In mainstream publications, the writers are almost exclusively men even though the sex ratios in the pews were roughly sixty percent women, forty percent men.