Head coverings?

Question

What does the Bible teach about female head covering? Because i've heard a lot about women having to cover their head when they pray, and that in order to always be ready to pray, a woman should keep her head covered.

A few people I know said that when they were younger, it was customary to wear a hat or head covering to Church.

Why do so few women now wear the covering?

Answer 1

yes my mother in law says that a few decades ago the women in church always wore hats.............i think head coverings are cool for praying and prophecying, but not all the time, the Bible says praying or prophecying. I like the Stevie Nicks romantic/gothy looking head coverings, i'd have no problem wearing those.......might look a bit out of place but what can ya do

it is really no worse than the same chapter telling a man to have his head uncovered while praying or prophecying.........and men really have a thing for covering their heads

Revenge is Sweet: no everyone does not use a cross while praying

Answer 2

This passage has also been used to justify women having long hair and men short.

I'm not sure what changed it, my mom used to have and wear hats but then sometime in the 60's she and most others stopped. Perhaps hats moved completely out of fashion for women (perhaps the feminist movement) and with out thinking about it the church goers did also. Or it could be that they all realized that it was and is a silly thing to require.

Answer 3

I know that head coverings for women became less common in Western Europe in the 60s partly because of the way immigrant Muslim women wore head coverings and walked 2 paces behind their men.
Then again, head coverings in general have become less common in the west. I mean, most men don't wear hats anymore either, except when they wear baseball caps of course.

Answer 4

As time went by a lot of the original practices of the religion got replaced by other practices.

That sums it up for you.

Many people who try to go back to the original practices find themselves stuck between doing what their heart and what their mind and culture dictates to them.

The Bible also says you shouldnt use idols but everyone uses the cross as a significant symbol during prayer and so on.

Answer 5

Jesus wasn't black. Simple geography tells us that people who lived where he lived would have been of semetic race, and looked similar to what arabs look like today.