No male or female in Christ, Jesus? So what about 1 Corinthians then? Most of us agree that because our cultural context is so different we can ignore the specifics of what Paul writes to men and women about head coverings, but bigger questions need to be addressed about the relevance of the bible, and indeed, what God actually thinks about male and female today. Hannah has wrestled with these questions for a lot of years, as a wife, mother, feminist and co-leader of Bread. If we come back to Paul’s motivation we see this passage has its roots in the origins of gods plan for mankind: oneness. It’s not that gender is obliterated in the kingdom of God, but rather the division that broken gender distinctions have caused since the fall. This is the redemptive power of Jesus.