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  • Women in Islamic headscarves sat near Christian women in the headcoverings they don in church.

    Egypt Christians mark mournful Christmas Eve Mass 2011

  • Perhaps the most interesting section of Frugal Abundance is the Christian Womanhood material, where you can learn how to sew your own bloomers and headcoverings.

    Reanimated Dodie Bellamy 2009

  • If people have been bothered by my headcoverings then that was their problem, not mine.

    Archive 2009-10-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Perhaps the most interesting section of Frugal Abundance is the Christian Womanhood material, where you can learn how to sew your own bloomers and headcoverings.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dodie Bellamy 2009

  • I've got a large pile of black fabric in front of me, which I have to sort into cloaks, gloves and headcoverings.

    Danielle Crittenden: Islamic Like Me: Does This Burka Make Me Look Fat? 2008

  • Some of the Jewish men are shown with headcoverings (e.g., the Pharisees and Simon of Cyrene) in The Passion of the Christ, but St. John does not have one (especially at the Crucifixion).

    Archive 2008-03-30 papabear 2008

  • Some of the Jewish men are shown with headcoverings (e.g., the Pharisees and Simon of Cyrene) in The Passion of the Christ, but St. John does not have one (especially at the Crucifixion).

    Archive 2008-04-01 papabear 2008

  • I just got a kercheif type veil from headcoverings.com.

    Show us your veil week Dymphna 2007

  • Apologies to the overly-sensitive evangelicals, but “openly religious” is talking about folks wearing religous articles like headcoverings, and taking non-federal holidays off.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do You Have Any Openly Religious Attorneys?,” 2007

  • The third group, which represented the vast majority of the faithful Catholic women with whom I spoke, seemed to consider headcoverings a spiritual "non-issue," except for the most pragmatic reasons such as witnessing to a Muslim or a desire to please her husband.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2006

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