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Get your MRS degree at SWBTS -- New course of study

I first saw mention of this at Levellers and had a big laugh and then I saw it at Jesus Politics and then finally I got to Ethic's Daily and saw the whole thing. This article by Bob Allen is really must read!
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is now offering a BA in Humanities with a major in guess what -- homemaking. Since women belong in the kitchen and need to know how to make their own clothes, just like in the 1950s, SWBTS and SBTS offer a course of study designed just for that purpose.
The course work, which apparently is taught by the only woman on faculty -- yes you guessed it -- the President's wife, Dorothy Patterson, includes such worthy courses as:
  • "General Homemaking" (3 units)
  • "The Value of the Child" (3 units) -- is this a how to have a child course?
  • Design and apparel -- including 4 units in "Clothing Construction with Lab" (7 units) -- My wife says she can buy clothes at Ross cheaper than she can buy material, so seems like this is a fruitless course.
  • "Biblical Model for the Home and Family" (3 units) -- My question is this -- is Bill Gothard the author of the text for this class? Sure sounds like it.

Apparently the future of the nation and the SBC depends on pastors' wives being properly trained as homemakers.

"It is homemaking for the sake of the church and the ministry and homemaking for the sake of our society," Patterson said. "If we do not do something to salvage the future of the home, both our denomination and our nation will be destroyed."

I like "Leave it to Beaver" but do we have to return to the 1950s to save the nation and the church?

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Ken said…
The church could use a little homemaking.... If you read Titus it mentions all these things... Bill Gothard is a gift to the church. You might do well to read him. It's good stuff.
12:04 AM
Robert Cornwall said…
As a matter of fact I did the Gothard thing -- even the Minister's Seminar. So I do know a thing or two and it is built on a principle of proof texting. Start with your theory and find texts to support it.
12:14 AM
Virginia said…
I don't really mind "homemaking" or "home economics" training in academic institutions. After all, in divorce proceedings, women have long struggled to show that their work in the home has value and takes skill. Of course, the classes you mentioned here sound disturbing, and I'm guessing men won't be enrolling in this major, so there are problems with the intent and execution, but the simple existence of a "homemaking" major in a time when a bachelors degree is as essential as a high school diploma once was is all right with me. There have been automotive degrees and physical education degrees for men for a long time. It's not our (women's) fault that the type of work generally placed on us hasn't been paid in the past. Maybe with degrees in it, we will have a stronger case for pay. (I know, I know, I'm just dreaming)
4:11 AM
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