Kay

“5. Kay, no i don’t think women should wear head coverings. This was a cultural practice to show the wifes submission to her husband.”
Kay, If you disagree with it being about husbands/wives, please give me your interpretation as to why it is men/women?

Mark,
I disagree because in the text Paul refers to the problem of ‘men’ in general covering their heads in worship – not only ‘husbands’ covering heads. And not all men are husbands every moment of their lives.

Here Paul never states that as why the women were wearing them during worship – again it would be pre-assumptive reading.
Women’s headcovering was practiced for a variety of reasons in Greece at that time. Philo (De Specialibus Legibus 3.56), a first century Alexandrian Jew, describes the head-covering (epikranon) as “the symbol of modesty, regularly worn by women who are wholly innocent.”

Do you believe it is a sin for a woman to preach or teach in a ‘formal’ church?