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?
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.
After all, how could a liberated
woman covering her head and bowing in reverence to her liberated husband be anything else?
A woman covering her head while prophesying also shows she also understands this government.
When
a women covers her head in church it has heavenly impact!
Does Islam demand
women cover their heads?
Not exact matches
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.
In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian
women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim
head covering.
You can't consider the practice of
head covering in 1 Corinthians 11 without also thinking about another aspect of the passage that gives modern
women like me the heebie - jeebies.
The last thing we need is another «should», and I'm in no way suggesting that
women «should»
cover their
heads.
I may have found it fascinating, but any celebration of
head covering has to recognise that, for many
women, the practice is a symbol of oppression and spiritual abuse.
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?
So if you were picking a
woman to try out wearing a
head covering, I wouldn't be the obvious choice.
Yet, until recently,
head coverings were not uncommon among Christian
women.
When I learned the law of
head -
covering at a Jerusalem seminary for
women, I was horrified that I would have to bind up my
head upon marriage; all clothing was a concession, and I conceded as little as permissible.
We'll also let 56 year old men marry 6 year old girls and practice male - male relations as often as possible to protect the purity of
women before we marry several of them and
cover them from
head to foot, restrict their movement, disallow legal protection of them, etc..
That is not quite true: Jewish law requires a divorced
woman to
cover her hair, although a famous rabbi recently wrote that if a divorced
woman needs to bare her
head for marriage or to earn a living, she may do so.
-- 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»).»
Wars, beheadings, mistreatment of
women, hands cut off for stealing, stoning for adultery, lashings for being pictured without a
head covering.
Muslim
women can reveal who they are without being
covered from
head to toe and if they can not they can go back to a place where they can.
I know
women are supposed to have hats or long hair... «1Cr 11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having [his]
head covered, dishonoureth his
head.»
Should
women wear veils or will a little hat or bow suffice as a
head covering?
Initially I was resistant because actually, many years ago, before we were at Life Church, my family were part of a denomination where most of the
women had to have their
head covered.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian
women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian
women regarding
head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.
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).
This is akin, perhaps, to Islamic societies forcing
women to
cover up from
head to toe.
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.
So a Musilm American CEO can make
women employees wear
head covers because it's his religious belief?
«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.»
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?
Maybe if Islam does take over the world there will be an uprising from the oppressed bur seeing that it hasn't happened yet and that
woman allow themselves to be controlled in every way, including being raped beaten and
covered from
head to toe and not allowed to socialize without male relatives present the question is «Will
women destroy Islam from Within?»
«I know it's wrong to cut my hair,» says Balbir Singh, his
head covered with a printed black and white cotton scarf - both men and
women must
cover their hair before entering the gurdwara.
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..
Some of the
women wore
head coverings and none of them spoke in church.
(This passage makes it clear, by the way, that it is acceptable for
women to pray and prophesy if their
heads are
covered.)
For example, Jewett notes that 1 Corinthians 11:5 - 6 commands
women to
cover their
heads:
11:11 - 12), where Paul qualifies them, lest this phase of his argument regarding
women's
head coverings be misunderstood.
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.
Some complementarians believe it is biblical for
women to wear
head coverings.
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.
I'm sure the last thing Jesus cares about is what hat a
woman wears, when the
women with the issue of blood went to Jesus to be healed God didn't care about what kind of
head covering she had, or if she was a top dressed model for church, Jesus recognized her as a
woman with utmost faith that Jesus could heal her.
In Paul's day, numerous symbols were used to signify a
woman's subordinate relationship to men, particularly wives to husbands, usually in the form of
head coverings.
Justin's perspective here lines up beautifully with the themes of many of the New Testament epistles in which the justification for specific instructions (like
head coverings and
women remaining silent in church, for example) appear to be rooted in practical considerations regarding love for neighbor, considerations that clearly have a cultural context that may not apply today.
I would never want to imply that
women who choose to wear long dresses and
cover their
heads are frumpy!
Do you really think a
woman wishes to wear something black that
covers her from
head to toe with a small screen for the eyes, when it is 120 degrees outside?
Well, we've finally settled on a
cover for my new book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated
Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her
Head, and Calling Her Husband Master:
Any man who prays or prophesies with his
head covered dishonors his
head, but any
woman who prays or prophesies with her
head unveiled dishonors her
head — it is the same as if her
head were shaven.