If you absolutely have to sleep,
cover your head in an Ostrich pillow and tape your mouth shut.
In most of the Arabian Peninsula, which includes the U.A.E. and Kuwait, women wear an abaya — a long dress that covers all of the body except for the hands and is usually paired with a niqab or a hijab, the latter of which
covers the head but leaves the face exposed.
The trio built their fortune on a series of hit toys, starting with the Earth Buddy, a stocking -
covered head that grew grass hair, similar to a Chia Pet.
My experience of
covering my head has been relentlessly positive.
The last thing we need is another «should», and I'm in no way suggesting that women «should»
cover their heads.
Could the Western woman's apparent need to get up early to wash, dry, straighten, curl or lacquer her hair in an attempt to look attractive be just as oppressive as being forced to
cover your head?
a Christian nun is considered pious for
covering herself head to toe, because that's what God said in the bible.
But if a Muslim wants to please God by
covering herself head to toe people call her raghead, towel hanky, stupid and oppressed?
A number felt empowered by
covering their heads.
As
I covered my head, I meditated on gender, authority and submission.
Speaking of veils lifting, for instance, the government has rescinded rules that prohibited female students and government workers from
covering their heads.
-- I Corinthians 11:6 «For if a woman does not
cover her head (while praying), let her also have her hair cut off»
«While Amish women were considered legalistic for
covering their heads in compliance with his instructions in 1 Corinthians 11:5 («Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head»).»
Most complementarians do not require women to
cover their heads in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5) or to have long hair (1 Corinthians 11:5), or to avoid fine jewelry (1 Timothy 2:9), or to remain entirely silent in the church (1 Corinthians 14:34).
For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and
covered your heads, the seers.
This means, among other things, rising before dawn each day (Proverbs 31:15), submitting to my husband (Colossians 3:18), growing out my hair (1 Corinthians 11:15), making my own clothes, (Proverbs 31:22), learning how to cook (Titus 2:3 - 5),
covering my head when in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5), calling Dan «master» (1 Peter 3:5 - 6), caring for the poor (Proverbs 31:25), nurturing a gentle and quiet spirit (1 Peter 3:4), and camping out in the backyard for the duration of my monthly period (Leviticus 15:19 - 33).
What if one day we come to regard biblical teachings about homosexuality the same way we regard teachings about slavery, or dietary laws, or women
covering their heads in church?
Complementarians do not require women to
cover their heads in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:5), or remain entirely silent in church (1 Corinthians 14:34, 1 Timothy 2:12) or abstain from wearing jewelry (1 Peter 3:3), or abide by the Levitical Purity Laws that make them ceremonially unclean during their periods.
i am a buddhist now and feel indifferently about a woman
covering her head, though respect the choice to do so, so long as it is a Choice.
I love the picture of a woman
covering her head smiling like she's so happy.
thats why they need to
cover their heads to prevent the few gray cells in their thick skull from evaporating.
«If a woman does not
cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should
cover her head.»
As long as
you cover your head with something because you think God cares then I do nt see you as smart or American.
so a Nun
covering head to toe (can not marry, or have children) what do u call her??
Today my Muslim friend still
covers her head, eats no pork, and celebrates Idul Fitri.
Now if that is the way this young woman perceives her own faith — doing the 5x / day prayers, fasting for Ramadan,
covering her head, avoiding pork, celebrating holidays — what does she perceive Christianity to be?
This lady writing this article brings up well that Peter and Paul address roles of women including that they ought to
cover their heads, etc..
For example, Jewett notes that 1 Corinthians 11:5 - 6 commands women to
cover their heads:
I am Muslim, I observe to a reasonable extent although I do not
cover my head and I do believe that I deserve a day or 2 off as my classmates get to spend with their families to celebrate and etc..
It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls
cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!
The controversial Islamic teaching that women should
cover their heads is often viewed as oppressive.
Romans 1:26 - 27 refers to excessive sexual desire and lust and uses «natural» and «unnatural» to refer to customary gender roles, just as those words are used to describe men with long hair and women who
cover their heads.
It means growing out her hair, making her own clothes,
covering her head, obeying her husband, rising before dawn, abstaining from gossip, remaining silent in church, and even camping out in the front yard during her period.
After all, how could a liberated woman
covering her head and bowing in reverence to her liberated husband be anything else?
They apply proof - texts to support a paradigm in which women submit to their husbands, stay out of church leadership, and find their ultimate calling in the home as mothers... while ignoring those passages that instruct women to
cover their heads when they pray, call their husbands «master,» and function as the property of their fathers and husbands.
Consequently, for a man to
cover his head would be a disgrace because it suggested a reversal of proper relationships.
Rabbi Ruchman adds that the Sanhedrin members
covered their heads with ashes, their bodies with sack cloth, and cried when they heard these words, and the Jerusalem Talmud dates this occasion as a little more than 40 years before the destruction of the temple, that was in 70 AD.
And so the general rule — «love your neighbor through behavior that will not cause unnecessary strife» — may still apply, while the specifics — «
cover your head,» «remain silent» — may not.
I would never want to imply that women who choose to wear long dresses and
cover their heads are frumpy!
The heavy rain woke me up several times that night, and I prayed for the people sitting in the rain on the sidewalk downtown, some without even a garbage bag to
cover their heads.
A bandage
covers his head.
Rather, they were to clip their hair in a modest way so that it would
cover the head but not fall over the eyes.
For a man ought not to
cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
If a woman's hair is the head covering he is talking about then why cut it off if she does not
cover her head?
What this means is, Women in church who do not
cover their heads are dishonouring men and in doing so would obviously be dishonouring God.
People were just as catty and judgmental back then as they are today and
covering their heads helped them fit in better.
What Paul is saying here is, if a woman would not want the disgrace of having her hair cut off or her head shaved then she should have the same attitude towards God and
cover her head.
Men not
covering their heads shows they accept not only their authority, but also their responsibility.
7 A man ought not to
cover his head, [b] since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.
6 For if a woman does not
cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should
cover her head.