Welcome to the Longhouse

Hey guys, John here, and I had to show you this. This is a recreation of, that's right, this is a longhouse.

You hear about it talked about online. This is what it actually looks like, and you can see the bark on the front. This would have shielded the

Algonquins, whichever tribe, the Lenape or perhaps the Delaware, who inhabited the mid -Hudson

Valley region. It would have shielded them from the elements. This is what it looks like inside. Kind of dark, but you can see not much.

A little place to sit and make a fire and so forth, but that's the longhouse.

And I'm thinking about my book, Against the Waves, Christian Order in a

Liberal Age, and just the process I went to in writing it. You can get a copy, by the way, at againstthewavesbook .com.

And one of the things I talk about is, in chapter 15, which is Act Like Men, I talk about why men are uniquely equipped to lead in political capacities.

And I even mentioned the longhouse. I mentioned this concept that you hear bandied about online quite a bit, and why it's nothing against women.

Women have a very, very important role, just like men have a very, very important role that they play, but men are equipped to lead.

Part of that is the physical strength that they have. Part of that is just what

God gave them as far as identifying threats and having this sort of more aggressive instinct to protect and preserve and conquer.

And women have more of a maternal instinct. They have more of a good bedside manner.

I mean, when I was a kid, even when I got hurt, who did I run to? I mean, mom or dad, right?

Generally, it's mom. And these things are, of course, all wired into creation.

And so, I go into a lot of details about this. And one of the things that I think

I'm the most enthusiastic about from this chapter is showing from scripture in multiple places that this natural order, these natural distinctions between male and female are just assumed.

Paul tells you to act like men. He doesn't expand on that. He assumes you know what he's talking about. And even pagans, like the

Philistines, knew what it meant to act like women or act like men on the battlefield. So, there's some natural things, natural order things, that the

Bible simply assumes without going into great detail on because we should kind of already know these things.

It's kind of common sense, right? And I brought this up before in the past that, hey, there's these differences between men and women.

And believe it or not, I've had people try to oppose me and say, give me a Bible verse for like a comprehensive list with Bible verses attached to it of all the things that make men different from women or else it's not true.

That you can have these very effeminate, kind of sensitive men and there's nothing that violates scripture.

But scripture, I talk about this in the chapter, scripture blatantly says that effeminacy is sinful.

So, anyway, check it out, Against the Waves, Christian Order in a liberal age.

And let me know what you think. If you don't like it, don't rate it high. Don't, don't, just, just kind of ignore it.

But if you like it, go rate it high on Amazon or wherever you got it. And that would really help me out and help us get the message out.