Posted on 08/09/2007 12:19:03 PM PDT by balch3
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary offers coursework in Greek and Hebrew, in archaeology, in the philosophy of religion and _ starting this fall _ in how to cook and sew.
One of the nation's largest Southern Baptist seminaries, the school is introducing a new, women-only academic program in homemaking _ a 23-hour concentration that counts toward a bachelor of arts degree in humanities. The program is aimed at helping establish what Southwestern's president calls biblical family and gender roles.
Coursework will include seven hours of nutrition and meal preparation, seven hours of textile design and "clothing construction," three hours of general homemaking, three hours on "the value of a child," and three hours on the "biblical model for the home and family."
Seminary officials say the main focus of the courses is on hospitality in the home _ teaching women interior design as well as how to sew and cook. Women also study children's spiritual, physical and emotional development.
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You misspelled “homemakunnnnnngh”.
Most valuable course I had in High School, hands down, was typing. Nothing wrong with practical courses. They are going to be made fun of though . . .
As long as they are truly being biblical. It is good. Sometimes, extra-biblical philosophies and interpretations work their way into seminary activities though.
Sounds like home ec to me. It was a sad day in this country when most high schools decided those courses were no longer necessary.
We have a cooking and household management course at the private Christian school where I teach.
The guys love to take the course also because you get to eat what you cook.
It’s appropriate for high school. More than appropriate. But seminary? Seminaries are usually post baccalaureate.
These values used to be taught by Christian mothers to their daughters. It’s a sad commentary that this is as outmoded as bustles.
According to the SBTS web site, undergraduate tuition is $198 per credit hour for Baptists and $396 per credit hour for non-Baptists. My guess is that most young women inclined toward homemaking in the first place have mothers or other women in their lives from whom they can learn the housewifely arts. So why pay through the nose for college-level courses in them?
It’s appropriate for high school. More than appropriate. But seminary? Seminaries are usually post baccalaureate.
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Well, it is a Baptist seminary! (ducks and covers)
I love you, brothers and sisters in Christ.
It would be politically incorrect, but I would love to see a documentary about whether “women’s lib” has been good for society. Men and women are different, and only women can be mothers. Society doesn’t want to encourage women to be good wives and mothers anymore. We’re supposed to raise our daughters to want to be firemen and astronauts but nothing is to be said about their futures as wives and mothers. You can see the fallout from these types of attitudes today. Out of wedlock child bearing has become normalized, and many “yuppie” women will end up not having children at all, even if they are married. Marriage itself is in decline. But it’s good to see the seminary taking the subject of the home and family seriously and as important as the other subjects taught.
If we can just include modules on fish-cleaning and deer-gutting, us guys will have it made!
It has been a societal disaster, IMO.
Carolyn
If they really, really wanted to get serious about ticking off the liberals, they would have mandatory sessions on teaching the children at home, also (what bette way to put to use the Greek and Hebrew they will also be learning).
You don’t have to duck for me! I USED to be a Baptist. I think these skills are much neglected, but this is not an appropriate class for seminary. Greek and Hebrew are.
Personally I run away from anything that even smells like women’s lib. It has for the most part been a disaster for this nation, and one direct result has been the high abortion rate. Let’s get back to basics. Men and women are different and so are their roles. Our nation needs strong families to survive. Strong families need strong homes and parents who are willing to be adults.
giving the vote to women was a big mistake. Just think how elections would have turned out if they hadn’t voted. Clinton wouldn’t have been elected for sure, and the MSM wouldn’t be able to drive down President Bush’s poll numbers. Women are just too easily swayed.
Do you have some numbers to back those assertions up?
Wish I could sign up! Sounds like fun!
Sadly, most schools don't even teach Home Ec anymore.
Back in ‘76, equal numbers of men AND women vote for Jimmy Carter over Gerald Ford.
lol, old times are come again.
Unnnnngh
...lol?
Anne Coulter has said the same thing — giving women the right to vote was a mistake. I would not go as far as that, but it is true that women ( but clearly not the women on this site) are less politically informed and aware then men are. Therefor they make less informed choices.
Um, Ann Coulter makes a living by saying/writing shocking and inflammatory things in order to get people to buy her books and read her columns. Just because she made that statement, which I laughed at then and chalked up to her trying to get attention, doesn’t make it rational, or logical.
It’s a stupid statement and an incorrect assumption about women. What if someone here said, “because they primarily vote Democratic, blacks should never have been given the right to vote”? Outrage and a possible removal by the moderator.
exactly right. Plus they’re too emotional to make logical decisions.
But you want us in the home exclusively, raising future voters? How can we possibly handle that which is one of the most important jobs in the world (raising children) if we’re to emotional to make logical decisions?
You realize how many logical decisions a mother must make in the day...on her own...don’t you, when it comes to raising a child?
“You realize how many logical decisions a mother must make in the day...on her own...don’t you, when it comes to raising a child?”
But that’s exactly what they ignore in their attempt to “keep us in our place”!
I can cook and sew, taught my children, one girl, two boys the basics and what they didn’t pick up from they got in highschool home ec class or their grandmother. What they choose to pass on to their kids is their business.
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