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Tennessee's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has a new class for women this fall: how to cook and sew.
The new academic program is a 23-hour homemaking concentration that counts toward a humanities degree. The program's aim is to help establish "biblical family and gender roles," according to Paige Patterson, Southwestern's president. He said the school is "moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God's word for the home and the family."
Some Baptists are not impressed with the school's new program. "At first it was almost incredible to me," said Rev. Benjamin Cole, a Baptist pastor in Texas and Southern Baptist critic. "It's insulting I would ...