Monday, June 18, 2007

Baptist Seminary Homemaking Classes for Wives to Rescue Culture, Church

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Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary moves from the ridiculous to the sublime. Teaching women how to be women, wives and mothers. And offering a seminary degree in same. Read the article and try to control your gag reflex. Here is a brief sample:

Christian homemaking will save the Southern Baptist Convention and the nation, according to the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the nation's largest training schools for pastors.
Paige Patterson announced at the SBC meeting in San Antonio that his school was offering an academic program to train women how to make a Christian home.

Yes, there is evidently a Christian way for wives to water houseplants, wash clothes, warm leftovers and wax floors.

Having made June Cleaver the biblical model for motherhood, training the wives of ministers to be June Cleaver with a Christian twist shouldn't have come as a surprise.


Heaven help us! What is this "flagship" of SBC seminary education doing? Paige Patterson wants us to give all of our young boys guns and dogs so that can become great hunters. Albert Mohler thinks none of the boys should remain unmarried beyond the age of 17 ot 18 but should get about the business of impregnating their submissive wives! Stupidity upon stupidity.

3 comments:

Angela said...

They have really jumped the shark this time...

Anonymous said...

I guess that this is better than telling the wives to wrap themselves in Saran wrap, as someone did in the 70's? 80's?

Angela said...

Yes. Better than Saran Wrap... but that was a women's "empowerment" thing, right? How to be beautiful ... or maybe it was just for the husband, and the empowerment came later.