Boatload Chronicles

Southwestern Baptist Seminary recently decided on a new degree for women: a BA in Humanities with a 23 hour concentration in homemaking. I am thrilled at the news. When I went to Belhaven I mentioned that I would love it if there were some kind of homemaking major. There would be classes on cooking, sewing, cutting hair, hospitality, education, etc. These are all skills that a woman could use inside and outside of the home. She could work at a salon, a restaurant, or a school. She would have skills that would help in church ministry and missions and many other areas. If we lived closer to Southwestern I would look into this degree even though I have said over and over that I am done with school. I’ve said that because I am not career-minded. The only thing I’ve ever really wanted to do is stay home and take care of my family. I went to college and earned a BA in English because it was engrained in me that education is good and necessary (and I agree), but I don’t want to have a career. I am just biding my time right now as a secretary (I guess office assistant sounds better) until we have children and Christopher gets an amazing job as a rich and famous lawyer. Hehe.

The thing that really gets me on fire is that Southwestern has been greatly criticized by other Christians and Baptists for introducing this degree. One person actually said that he’d rather see women taking classes for more vital ministries. More vital ministries?! There are no other ministries more vital than the home and family! God has set up the family as the building block and basic unit of society, and He has set up limits and guidelines for what a family is supposed to look like. One of the reasons why our world is so nasty today is because CHRISTIANS have forgotten God’s standards and neglected their God-given duties and responsibilities in the home and family. The divorce rate among Christians is no better than in the secular world. Christians are getting pregnant out of wedlock. Children raised in Christian homes are straying far from the faith of their parents and never coming back. Christian families have just as many broken and unhappy homes as unbelievers and yet the ministry of the home isn’t vital enough to warrant a seminary to offer classes to teach women about their God-gives roles as wives and mothers?! This is crazy and it disgusts me. I heartily support and thank Southwestern Baptist Seminary for offering these studies for women, and I hope and pray that other seminaries and Christian colleges will follow in Southwestern’s footsteps. We need more schools and Christians like this today who want to promote what God teaches in His Word about families and the woman’s role in her home.

On another note, Mom’s surgery yesterday went well, praise God. The doctor doesn’t think that they harmed her vocal chords, and he has said that it looks like Mom should be able to go home without a trach. This is another big praise. Mom was worried about that. Now please pray for her as she recovers and then as she and Dad try to pay off their debt from the surgery.

posted by Rashell at 1:47 PM