The one passage that can certainly seem like it may be requiring head coverings in worship is 1st Corinthians 11.

But before landing there, one more clear text from later in the same letter.

Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak,

but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also sayeth the law, 1st Corinthians 1434.

So once again, the clear instruction from the law

is for women to remain quiet.

And I take this together with the passage from 1st Timothy 2 to mean that they are not

allowed to lead out loud up front. Women may pray and sing with the whole

congregation, see the Psalms for example, but they may not

speak out since they are to be in submission to their own husbands and fathers and

the male leadership of the church. Introduction.

Women wearing head coverings in church seems to be making a bit of a comeback and some of my friends are part of the resurgence and I'm quite

sure that a whole bunch of it is driven by an honest repudiation of every

vestige of feminism and good riddance and a sincere desire to recover a truly biblically obedient patriarchy on which

principles we wholeheartedly agree. However on the question of whether the Bible requires women to

wear shawls or some sort of hat or veil in church on Sundays, I believe that

widespread ancient custom was a pious tradition that is permissible but not required by scripture in the new covenant.

All of scripture.

As always, we must take all of scripture into account. All of Scripture.

As always we must take all of Scripture into account and one of the rules of interpreting

scripture is interpreting the less clear passages in light of the clearer passages.

Of particular interest is the fact that the Bible clearly teaches that women ought to be silent in church,

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