Head Coverings

In my early twenties I began seriously committing to reading through the Bible from cover to cover yearly. No skipping around or deep diving into a certain book I preferred for months at a time. My Bible reading plan brought me through 1 Corinthians twice a year and every time I went through it I was faced with the puzzling question of how to interpret the first 13 verses of chapter 11. I had heard some defenses of head covering that simply didn't convince me, but even worse than that I heard and read many a scholar try to snub off the head covering of women with a mere "it was an ancient cultural thing". This felt like a passage that wasn't as simple as it seemed given the context of the greater narrative of scripture. Yet, disregarding obedience to this text with a cultural argument felt sloppy to me given Paul's appeal to creation in verses 8-9. To make a long story short, I found some resources that helped sift through this topic in a way that felt Biblically consistent. I thought I'd offer them to you here: Starting with what I would consider the most concise & clear resource on the topic: 21 Theses on Head Coverings for Women. You can read it in blog form here or listen to the podcast version here.

This podcast episode covers several different topics amongst which they discuss head coverings. I appreciated how genuine this conversation is and I felt they spoke fairly and highly of brothers that disagree with them. The head covering conversation begins at minute 20:35.

This is a fantastic question and answer style article that specifically aims to clarify some of the confusing language that comes up in the 1 Corinthians passage and in the conversation at large. It is a three part series of articles, I have linked the second article in the series.

Quick 25 minute review of the content in the link above from the author of the article, Adam McIntosh. I appreciated the direct question and answer defenses he gave.

A longer, but fabulous lesson on 1 Corinthians 11 by James Jordan. His exegesis and Biblical theology is so rich and he also made me laugh out loud several times while listening. I highly recommend!