I was watching a movie the other night where a character remarked: “I enjoy being a girl.” Not long ago, I wouldn’t have given that line a second thought. But then I realized that there was something that was different about her experiences as a girl: she had autonomy to decide what that meant to […]
Tag: Headcovering
Dropping Everything
“Reading while supposed to be doing dishes. Got to stop b/c the book [apparently on Male Headship and Female Submission via Christian Head-coverings from 1 Corinthians 11] reminded me to honor my husband, and doing my work is part of that.” The caption read below a picture of a closed book inside of a dish […]
Covering Conscience
My friends at the Head Covering Movement recently put out a video talking about how wearing a head covering is a lot like wearing a one-piece bathing suit – you have a clear conscience when you’re wearing something modest; as opposed to the immodest two pieces and not wearing a head covering – not being […]
How legitimate is Christian Head-covering?
Just today, I saw that the ACLU (an obviously evil organization who hates Christians by requiring all those pesky ten commandments be taken down from public spaces) had filed a suit on behalf of a Christian woman who was required to remover her head covering to take her driver’s license photo. This can only be […]
On Respectable Head-covering
Protestant/Evangelical Christian Head Covering has always been something I’ve disliked ever since I learned that people have decided to try to resurrect it from it’s death half a century ago. Catholic Veiling, Amish Head Covering, hasn’t been anything I’ve been too worried about as it’s a different tradition and usually I don’t think of it […]
Covering Headship
Earlier this month, Mortification of Spin featured a guest post asking: “Is it Okay to teach a Complementarianism Based on Eternal Subordination?” It didn’t take long for the conversation to be picked up and for responses to be written by far more capable people than I. But in all of this, the headcovering verses that […]
Letters to the Corinthians: Making Very Little Headway
Few passages are more confounding than 1 Corinthians 11:2-16. Growing up, it was always the section that we skipped because the pastor couldn’t make heads nor tails of it. No one who actually read it could wrap their heads around it. Even looking it makes me feel like I’m in over my head. A few […]
What it is Not About
It’s been a few months since I was blocked from The Head Covering Movement for agreeing with someone who suggested that sometimes some people who are pro-Head Covering can lose their perspective because their love for Head Coverings blinds them to Christianity outside of the context of Head Coverings. Take Locks for Love, for example, […]
What It Is About
A response to: http://www.headcoveringmovement.com/articles/why-headcovering-is-not-about-modesty One thing that’s enjoyable about dystopian novels and films is that you can imagine and see a world where segregation is problematic. One terrible thing about reality is that we have a way of making fiction seem like a poor shadow of the evils humanity is capable of inflicting on our […]
Tradition
Coming from a Protestant background – I’ve been predisposed to view tradition as something inherently suspicious. History had shown us how things like tradition could easily steer people away from the reality of the faith. We had heard about indulgences and purgatory and saw that our Bibles didn’t support the idea, so we were duly […]
Be Persuaded 