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.
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“Covering the Web” is where we shine the spotlight on content about head covering or complementarianism that we did not produce ourselves. Each edition includes articles, videos, photos, as well as e-book deals relevant to our movement’s mission. Links are not endorsements.
MUST READ: “Why Men Should not Cover Their Heads in Public Worship…”
“…despite being comfortable wearing my hat in a church, I never would have thought of wearing my hat in the worship service myself. And, for that matter, never once in all my life as a Christian have I seen a man wear a hat in worship. What accounts for this practice?”
“Why on Earth Do Complementarian Men Want to Die for Their Wives?”
“If you want to see where abuse goes to die, look no further than at the Bible’s most extended teaching on marital complementarity. Christian men are summoned here by an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ to love their wives without limit.”
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MUST READ: “Reclaiming the Household”
“The household is a social form, a domestic community; the family, too, is a social unit, but it shades into the purely biological fact of consanguinity. One can be part of a family without being part of its household. This distinction is important if we are to understand and renew family life.”
“How Biblical is your Womanhood? Two Easy Tests”
“Both of these litmus tests are lacking, though. We can’t define our sense of worth by our happiness, or we’ll never want to do anything hard. We can’t define our sense of well-being by our sense of shame, or we’ll never get past self-flagellation long enough to delight in the Lord.”
“Do you wear one Mrs. Sproul?”
” I am going before thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, the church of the first born, whose names are written in heaven. I am coming to God, the Judge of all. Scripture instructs me to do so. “
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MUST READ: “Should Women Preach in Our Churches?” (The Gospel Coalition)
“The best argument I’ve seen for women preaching is by the Australian minister and apologist John Dickson in his book Hearing Her Voice: A Biblical Invitation for Women to Preach … Even if you aren’t familiar with the book, I’m quite certain it’s influenced people you do know.”
“Does Ephesians 5:21 teach mutual submission?” (CBMW)
“How is the word of God teaching us to order our families? Is the husband supposed to be the leader, or does the Bible designate no leader?”
“No one is covering, should I?” (My life with God)
“I think it’s important for me to study even more about God’s love for us and how he sees us and wants his children to behave.”
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MUST READ:Biblical Complementarianism Serves to Protect Women (Delivered by Grace)
“Regardless of where you stand on the issues of the way the news media portrays the complicity of the [Southern Baptist] Convention as a whole—the fact remains that women and girls have been abused and men have abandoned their post as protector and provider.”
Head Coverings in Worship? (Purely Presbyterian)
“Admittedly, this is a challenging passage, and an issue that not all Christians see eye to eye on. So we want to deal with objections that have come, and might come, in a way that is God honoring and charitable.”
Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality (The Calvinist International)
“I understand that they can sound harsh, and I understand that there is a history of abusive patriarchy. I also know that there are just boneheaded ‘bros’ who have no particular ideology and are instead led about by their bellies and lower appetites. No one should be a jerk about this stuff.”
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“Covering the Web” is where we shine the spotlight on content about head covering or complementarianism that we did not produce ourselves. Each edition includes articles, videos, photos, as well as e-book deals relevant to our movement’s mission. Links are not endorsements.
MUST READ:The Christian Woman’s Legitimate Sphere of Action and Influence (The Transformed Wife)
“Once in a while, I enjoy looking at the commentaries of old to see what they have to say about a verse so I did it with this one. Do they think this verse was only relevant to the time it was written as many believe? Were the women back then loud and obnoxious in the churches so this verse is not relevant for today?”
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The Objection: You say that Paul appeals to the creation order in 1 Corinthians 11 and I agree that it appears that way. The thing is, if that is the case, where was Eve’s head covering? Genesis 2 says she was naked, and not ashamed. And you can’t turn around and say that it only began after the Fall, because then it wouldn’t be a Creation mandate. How would you respond to such an argument?
In 1 Corinthians 11, the Apostle Paul grounds his argument for head covering in the pre-fall creation order. This is one of the strongest arguments for why veiling is not a cultural practice but rather is something that is to be upheld by all Christians. In making a distinction between the principle (biblical manhood and womanhood) and the symbol (head covering), some hold that only the principle needs modern affirmation. The symbol is seen as a cultural practice that pointed to proper gender roles in the first century, but that has no meaning today. Many complementarian theologians arrive at this conclusion because of a wrong expectation of continuity in practice. Meaning if the veil was truly grounded in the creation order, then not only would Eve have worn it before the fall, but also every godly woman throughout biblical history.
Head covering is not a practice that was required under the Old Covenant (though many women did cover throughout this time). It is only a requirement for those under the New Covenant (like us). So let’s first state up front that I agree that head covering was not supposed to be practiced in continuity from Eve onward. But that does not deal a death blow to the creation order argument. My position is that God has taken something common (a covering) and has infused it with creation order meaning. So he has set up a brand new symbol which he designed and gave meaning to, and then had His apostles deliver it to the churches for them to practice. This is not an anomaly as God has always been about creating symbols to visually teach different truths. Many of these symbols (like head covering) were only to be practiced under one covenant. For example, the sacrifices and the feasts (Col 2:16-17) were only to be practiced under the Old Covenant whereas Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are only for the new covenant. Read more
