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BY ROSE FRENCH Associated Press Writer 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. Southwestern Baptist, one of the largest Southern Baptist seminaries, is introducing a new academic program in homemaking as part of an effort to establish what its president calls biblical family and gender roles. It will offer a bachelor of arts in humanities degree with a 23-hour concentration in homemaking. The program is only open to women.

Coursework will include seven hours of nutrition and meal preparation, seven hours of textile design and three hours of general homemaking, three hours on value of a and three hours on the model for the home and 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 spiritual, physical and emotional development. Yet the program is raising eyebrows among some Southern Baptists, who say a degree concentration in how to be a Christian housewife is not useful, and a waste of seminary resources. Seminary President Paige Patterson, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has its executive committee headquarters in Nashville, said wives of seminary students asked for the homemaking courses. The program was approved by seminary trustees in the fall.

are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in word for the home and the Patterson said at the annual meeting in June. we do not do something to salvage the future of the home, both our denomination and our nation will be Terri Stovall, dean of programs at Southwestern, which has its main campus in Fort Worth, Texas, said the purpose of the program is to strengthen families. a woman works outside or strictly in the home, her first priority is her family and she said. just really want to step up and provide some of these Stovall said the homemaking degree is one of 10 programs at the seminary and is targeted to women whose heart and calling is the A description of the homemaking program on the Web site says it to prepare women to model the characteristics of the godly woman as outlined in Scripture. is accomplished through instruction in homemaking skills, developing insights into home and family while continuing to equip women to understand and engage the culture of The Rev.

Benjamin Cole, pastor of Parkview Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, and a frequent Southern Baptist critic, wrote about the homemaking program on his blog. first it was almost incredible to Cole said. thought this is not happening. quite superfluous to the mission of theological education in Southern Baptist life. insulting I would say to many young women training in vital ministry roles.

yet another example of the ridiculous and silly degree to which some Southern Baptists, Southwestern in particular, are trying to return to what they perceive to be biblical gender Patterson took a leading role in the 1980s in a successful campaign to oust moderates from leadership posts in the Southern Baptist convention. While he was president of the convention from 1998 to 2000, Southern Baptists issued a statement that women should not be pastors and that wives should to their husbands. In 2003, when Patterson left his post as president of North Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to serve as president, he was A8 GETTYSBURG TIMES SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2007 Religion grandson returns to flock with a prodigal son story his own BY MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press Writer MARGATE, Fla. AP The hair is spiky, his beard is scruffy, his skin is tan. He talks of his youthful forays into drugs and sex.

Meet the grandson of evangelist Billy Graham. Tullian Tchividjian cuts a far different profile than the man he grew up calling Daddy Bill. At 34, back in the fold, with a book just out and a congregation to lead, he says the spiritual path forging is all his own. not sure that carrying my torch is what I or any other young evangelical would want said about he said in an interview at his office. a distinction of what God has called me to do and what God has called him to That struggle between who he is and what his family represents has been playing out throughout life.

The middle of seven children born to Stephan Tchividjian and eldest daughter, Gigi, the young minister said he could- figure out where he fit in growing up. So he turned to familiar distractions. rebelled against everything my family stood said Tchividjian (his name rhymes with religion). At 16, unable to obey his basic rules (like not bringing drugs in the house), he was escorted by police from his home. He dropped out of school and spent the next five years partying on South Beach, trying to pick up girls and getting high.

was a wild man. I lived a no-holds-barred Tchividjian said. I believed it would bring me maximum pleasure in the moment, I did it, no matter what it Eventually, he said, he bottomed out. He arrived home late one night, coming down from a high, and literally fell to the floor. I have tried my best to ignore you and to do things my he remembers praying.

broken. broken and in need of A classic prodigal son story followed. Tchividjian recommitted himself to Christ, entered the seminary, became a minister. He married and had three children. He started the New City Presbyterian Church, a 450- member church in Coconut Creek.

He wrote a book, I Know It was released last month and asks readers to ponder the question. New music director Brandon Wells, a college friend of Tchividjian, said he sees similarities between grandfather and grandson. Wells said Tchividjian is a traditionalist who stays close to the podium when delivering a sermon, uses notes and takes his AP HOTO ILFREDO EE Tullian Tchividjian, senior pastor of the New City Presbyterian Church, gestures as he preaches during a service Sunday, Aug. 12, in Coconut Creek, Fla. Tchividjian calls the family patriarch Billy Graham, "Daddy Bill." Tchividjian, 34, with a book just out and a congregation to call his own, says the spiritual path forging is all his own.

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