If you liked it then you should have put a scarf on it

We apologize to the reader for the abortive enthusiasm of the last post. Sometimes the editorial we, like Jotham, makes promises we find difficult to keep.

To dip our toe back in the water, however, a minor incident at church was of note to us. We were visiting a small branch of the church in an Austrian city last week. The Sunday School teacher was a genial 60-something local in a threadbare suit from the 70's. To begin the class we watched some dubbed excerpts from young women's conference. At the conclusion of the video the teacher turned to us.

"You know what we forgot? We forgot to pray. Is there a sister who would be willing to pray?"

A sister volunteered and as she stood to pray the teacher inserted, "Excuse me, would you mind covering your head when you pray?" The woman, who happened to be wearing a scarf, unquestioningly put it over her head and carefully tucked her hair inside of the scarf to conceal it and meekly asked the teacher, "Like this?" The teacher approved. We were stunned and scanned the room to espy whether we were the only sane ones present and noticed that this woman was the only one who had been wearing a scarf around her neck. What the heck was going on here?

At the conclusion of the prayer the teacher launched into a discussion totally unrelated to the videos he had shown. The balance of the time was spent discussing Paul's injunction that the woman cover her head, the members of the class offering approving comments. We were eager to speak out, but were prevented from doing so by our poor facility in German. What might you have done, reader?