The Totaled Woman Is Alive and Well at SWBTS

The latest edition of the Latest News from Southwestern is just full of fun(dy) stuff.  It may take me awhile to comment on all of it, so check back for updates.

First, an update on the happy homemaker program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. My first post on this subject came back in 2007 when the program was announced.

http://sepherim.blogspot.com/2007/08/two-pictures-are-worth.html

Now the seminary is proudly showcasing the new home on seminary hill for the happy homemaker home.  You can see the proud parents in the press release,
 "Southwestern Seminary dedicates Horner Homemaking House"

Acccording to the press release, the building, named the Sarah Horner Homemaking House, will serve as an educational building but will look more like a house than a classroom, complete with kitchen and textile lab, as well as a large library, full of resources for classroom lectures. Upstairs, two rooms will house students in the homemaking concentration and another room will be available for guest housing.

Next, just in case you are wondering if they do still allow women to teach about children's ministry at Fort Fundamentalist, "Trustees elected Karen Kennemur as assistant professor of children’s ministry in the School of Educational Ministries."  I do wonder how they justify having a wife and mother of three children work outside the home like this.  What kind of example is that setting for all of the future happy homemakers?

LATEST OUTRAGE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS ;)

LATEST OUTRAGE FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A hostage drill at New Jersey school features phony "Christian terrorists." Full story and reaction here.

The religious right is horrified that a school would conduct a terrorist drill using mock gunmen, described as "members of a right-wing fundamentalist group called the 'New Crusaders' who don't believe in the separation of church and state." How soon we forget. Doesn't anyone remember that the second largest terrorist attack in the US occurred April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma City and that the terrorists had connections to "right-wing fundamentalist groups" and publically stated that their motive for the bombing was to avenge what the government had done at Waco and Ruby Ridge (more right-wing fundamentalists). In the wake of 9/11 have we forgotten that not all terrorists are from the Middle East? Sadly, the impulse that drives people to commit terrorist acts is not limited to any ethnic, geographic, or religious group. And historically some of the worst terrorists have called themselves Christian. At least the students at one NJ school have a chance to remember that you cannot tell a terrorist by the color of his skin or the direction he prays.

The kicker in this is that the call David Barton a "Historian and constitutional expert." The same David Barton that made up quotations from the founding fathers to support his attacks on religious freedom in this country. Why do Christians still consider him an authority on anything but making money for David Barton?