- Daily Praise

On the few occasions her family went to church, Tina Burnside was enthralled by the sight of women wearing over-the-top, colorful and sometimes sequined hats. “I just remember, particularly on Easter Sunday, you have the women there in the beautiful hats, and the matching outfit, and the purse and the shoes,” Burnside said. “It’s just […]

- Daily Praise

Mae Cullins, Divine International Pow Wows, Monroe Verse 15 from chapter 11 in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians reads that a woman must cover her head in order to pray or prophesy. It’s a belief shared by the thirteen women who posed for this project. Many of the women talked about dressing for church as […]

National

When Lydia Calviness died two years ago at the age of 93, she bequeathed her church hats to her grandniece Monica Moss. Genealogically speaking, Ms. Moss did not qualify as the closest female relative. Ms. Calviness had arranged the inheritance because Ms. Moss, like her, was what the lexicon of black Christianity calls a “first […]