I just came across your article on the covering by Hiram Hutto. We are studying I Corinthians 11 currently.\u00a0 I will study further, but in the meantime, my question is: Do you allow women to teach or lead a prayer (or singing) in the assembly (when men are present) as long as they wear the covering?<\/p>\n\t
No. See “Let Women Keep Silent in the Churches<\/a>” and “Women in the Church<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: I just came across your article on the covering by Hiram Hutto. We are studying I Corinthians 11 currently.\u00a0 I will study further, but in the meantime, my question is: Do you allow women to teach or lead a prayer (or singing) in the assembly (when men are present) as long as they wear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[117,1510,451,82],"class_list":["post-20607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-head-covering","tag-prayers","tag-teaching","tag-womens-roles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1771,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/when-did-women-stop-covering-their-heads-during-worship\/","url_meta":{"origin":20607,"position":0},"title":"When did women stop covering their heads during worship?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 9, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am not very old; therefore, all I know about the veil thing is from my mother and from westerns; but otherwise, I do not know when about the whole change occurred. 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