Cheryl Schatz

One other thing, Mark. If you read through the Jewish historical literature on the issue of the woman’s head covering, you will find that her wearing the head covering is not an issue of honoring her husband. It is an issue of not dishonoring or shaming him by going without it. The head covering did not produce honor. It covered her shame. It was a fully shame based item and not in the category of honor.

What is the Christian way of honoring the head? Honor comes by reflecting the glory of the head. The woman is the glory of the husband and she is free to shine forth that glory without a symbol of shame. In the same way the Christian woman is also the glory of God and she is to shine forth that glory. We are to shine forth, not cover up.