A Little More On Ruth Graham’s Casket

ASHEVILLE, N.C. “ On a visit to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, La., in 2005, Franklin Graham noticed some coffins being produced by the inmates. Upon inquiry, he learned this was a project inmates began several years ago when warden Burl Cain discovered that many of the poorer inmates were being buried in cardboard boxes.

The warden had the inmates construct simple plywood coffins for themselves and others who could not afford to purchase them. In addition to making the caskets, the prisoners, many of them former hardened criminals who are now committed Christians, also pray over them.

Franklin was struck by the simple and natural beauty of these caskets and requested that the prisoners design and build two of them for his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Graham’s coffins were built by inmate Richard “Grasshopper” Liggett, with the help of others, whose names are burned into the wood.

The coffins are made of plywood and lined with a mattress pad. The Grahams requested no special upgrades to the caskets, which cost around $200 to make. They were modified slightly for easier transport to multiple locations.

Upon his death, Mr. Graham will be buried in his own matching casket and laid to rest next to his wife at the foot of the cross-shaped walkway in the Prayer Garden at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte.

Following Franklin’s visit to the prison, a chapel at Angola was dedicated in Mr. Graham’s honor in 2006.

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SBC offers academic program to train women how to make a Christian home

Christian homemaking will save the Southern Baptist Convention and the nation, said the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, one of the nation’s largest training schools for pastors.Paige Patterson announced at the recent SBC meeting in San Antonio that his school was offering an academic program to train women how to make a Christian home.

Yes, there is evidently a Christian way for wives to water houseplants, wash clothes, warm leftovers and wax floors.

Having made June Cleaver the biblical model for motherhood, training the wives of ministers to be June Cleaver with a Christian twist shouldn’t have come as a surprise. The SBC adopted a doctrinal statement in 1998 that a wife had “the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household.”

The so-called cultural crisis apparently necessitated the seminary’s program, which will require 23 hours of course work, including seven hours of “design and apparel” with a lab for clothing construction. Another seven hours of course study covers meal preparation and nutrition.

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