The Head Covering Movement is a community of Christians who are sparking a return to the biblical practice of head covering (1 Cor. 11:2-16).
Hope Boisen joins The Head Covering Movement as our new video content creator! Here, she shares the story of her childhood in an unhealthy church & family culture to finding freedom and joy in Christ. Part of this journey includes an ongoing personal commitment to the beauty of biblical head covering.
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Adam McIntosh, pastor at St. David’s Reformed Church in Houston, and writing for Kuyperian Commentary, published an intriguing three-part series attempting to “uncover the head covering movement.” In Part One of the series, he introduced “10 vital questions which must be answered” in order to understand what the Bible really teaches about head covering. In Part Two, he attempted to answer these 10 questions. Part Three addressed the “dangers to be avoided” when head covering.
Since Head Covering Movement Co-Director David Phillips already did an excellent job of addressing the theological assumptions and objections brought up in this series, my goal is simply to respond as a head covering woman to some of the ideas put forth in McIntosh’s series. I agreed with some of his ideas. Others I found to be inaccurate. And I felt that some of them were a bit offensive. I will be addressing this from a “heart” perspective. Read more
As with any Christian practice, we can get distracted. We can make mistakes. We can forget priorities.
Over the years, HCM Co-Directors David and Jessica have seen many people wrestle with common head covering questions and decisions.
In this podcast, we hope to provide some biblical wisdom to help you avoid some of the mistakes we’ve seen.
You can also listen to this podcast (Episode 2) on Spotify
I was recently surprised to see that a Reformed pastor has taken the time to produce a carefully written 3-part series about his disapproval of The Head Covering Movement.
Of course, a number of Christians (mostly in the last century) have written commentaries, studies, and sermons that disagree with the modern day practice of head covering. But this is the first time I’ve seen someone write against the Movement. He even picked a creative title: “Uncovering the Head Covering Movement.”
After the initial feeling of surprise, my next response was gratitude. The Head Covering Movement must be making a splash that’s big enough to be noticed by those who haven’t yet embraced the practice. Whether that splash is happening due to the “Movement” itself or due to God’s overall work in returning His people to 1 Corinthians 11, praise the Lord! Read more
So this “head covering movement thing” — what’s it all about? Find out the specifics you’ve been wanting to know in this conversation with HCM Co-Directors David and Jessica. You will also hear about how each of them first came to believe that head covering is for today and became involved with HCM.
>>We now have an official Head Covering Movement Podcast on Spotify!<<
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Name: Mary Beth Voelker | Age: 59 | Location: Central North Carolina | Date started covering: Maundy Thursday, 2023
1) Please introduce yourself to our readers.
I’m a writer, stained glass artist, and deli clerk. I’ve been married for 35 years and have 4 children and 2 grandchildren. Over many years of doing many different things, I’ve been granted the understanding that God put me on earth to make stuff and feed people. I’ve lost count of the number of hobbies and crafts I’ve tried, but stained glass is the first one that shows a real prospect of turning into a profitable business.
2) Where do you attend church? Tell us a little bit about it. Do others practice head covering there?
I attend Grace Church, a large non-denominational, evangelical, contemporary church in central North Carolina. My husband and middle son are employed as tech staff, primarily serving at one of the multi-sites where our youngest son also volunteers as tech crew and I serve on the hospitality team. My job is feeding the volunteers. It makes for a long day, especially for the tech-and-worship workers, as they don’t rotate out between services (unlike the greeters, ushers, and the children’s team).
We’re a Gospel-focused church with the formal mission to “Fill the city with Jesus.” We’re very conservative in many ways, such as only ordaining male ministers. But in a racially and ethnically diverse area where we focus on reaching those who don’t know Jesus at all, we’re very casual and low-key about dress code expectations and other trappings that would be familiar to people who grew up in mainline churches.
I may or may not be the only person covering among 200-300 people attending either the multi-site where I serve or the Thursday night service I sometimes attend. I don’t know about the 800-1000 or so people on Sunday morning at the main campus since I haven’t been there in a number of years, though I do remember one particular lady in the children’s ministry who always wore cute hats. I don’t know if she was covering religiously or just liked cute hats.
Head covering is not a topic that has ever been addressed from the pulpit. I hate to say it, but getting the young guys out of their ball caps might be more of a priority if the topic were to ever come up. Read more
We hope this year has been going well for you! We’d like to provide an update about what the HCM Team members have been working on lately, and today seems like an appropriate day to do that. So without further ado…Greetings to the worldwide members of the Head Covering Movement!
David (Co-Director): By popular demand, David has decided to take a leave of absence in order to start the Head Uncovering Movement for men, especially aimed at male worship leaders who wear ball caps or beanies while singing to the Lord. He’ll also be focusing on the spiritual issues (non-legalistically, of course) behind men wearing skinny jeans and/or pink ties, but is still searching for proof-text passages to use for that.
Jennifer (Facebook Moderator): At her own invitation, Jennifer has graciously accepted the position of “HCM Matchmaker” for our HCM Facebook Group. Her focus will be on the women and men who just “happen” to casually note that they’re single, usually mentioned somewhere within their first (and second and third) post. Her services are free for the first 3 months, but matches that end in marriage will require a mandatory freewill donation. Read more
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