of the Holy Spirit in prayer and song.
At the same time, we must not limit our understanding of worship to mean an hour on Sunday mornings. True Christian worship is a way of living in thankfulness and faithfulness to God in all things — all things, not some things, all the time, not just some of the time. Thus, worship must be at the very center and heart of everything that we do. Worship effects the way we live our lives, not just what we do on Sunday mornings, though it has a particular focus on Sunday mornings.
All that having been said, it seems most likely that Paul was discussing some of the cultural norms — Christian cultural norms — of worship participation, which effect Sunday mornings and often spill over into our everyday living. Paul called attention to the social norm that men who participated in Sunday morning worship with their heads covered dishonored their head — Christ. And the opposite was true for women. Paul’s comments testify that such a norm was in existence at that time. That may seem odd at this point in history. But the traditional practice up until the 1960s was for men to take their hats off when they came into church, and for women to wear hats to church — and not just in America, but universally, virtually everywhere there was Christian worship.
What has happened since the 1960s is interesting. Women today seldom, if ever, wear hats to church, regardless of the denomination. Things have changed for women in response to the Women’s Rights Movement. Nonetheless, men still remove their hats in church, if they wear them to church.
I doubt that God ultimately cares whether or not people wear hats. That is not the issue. Rather, the issue is honoring the principle of headship, and doing so in