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AXIS Moondy Hello and welcome to it's in the code.

A series is part of the podcast, Straight, White American Jesus.

My name is Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Lamar College. I am your host.

As I say all the time, this is a series that only works because of you. This is a series that only

works when you let me know what you think, when you let me know about new ideas, when you give me

feedback about episodes, when you let me know what you want to hear about. And we have been

for a while, and still going to be for a while,

working through Josh Holly's book on manhood. So Senator Josh Holly, one of the, one of the

contemporary right-wing figures in our U.S. congressional group, is going to teach us about what

it is to be a man and what manhood is and the masculine virtues

that will save America and so forth. We're continuing to work through that. But I'm looking

ahead and I've seen, gotten several emails from folks asking for more on a series on questions

I couldn't ask in church or question that I was afraid to ask in church or questions I wasn't

supposed to ask in church. If you've got thoughts about that, email me, Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com, put in the header, questions I couldn't ask in church or wasn't supposed to ask in church something like that. That'll alert me that it's there. Putting that together and getting some great, some great examples from listeners. And so thank you to all

of you for doing that. And please keep those coming. I want to dive in here, just as a reminder,

as I said, we're looking through Holly's book. We are currently in Chapter 5, where he discusses

the first of the roles that he thinks men are called to play. Again, the first part of the book is a few chapters where he sort of lays out, I guess, his theology. We would maybe call it a philosophical or theological anthropology. His account of what men are, what they're called to be, their God-given purpose and so forth, talked all the stuff about Adam and the Garden of Eve, Garden of Eve, excuse me, Garden of Eden, and Adam and Eve and the temptation and the serpent

and all that sort of stuff. And then he goes into the roles that men are supposed to play. And we

are in chapter five. The first of those roles is husband. And I was reading, this will be the last episode on this chapter. There's more

that we could say. It's true of all these chapters all the time. They're so bad. They're so bad.

I read this so you don't have to read it. It's so bad. It's so dumb. And yet it is so common.

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