Q & A: Are There Limits to Male Headship?

“Recently I received an email at The Heidelblog from a woman named Katie with the following question: ‘I’m getting a lot of stick from my guy friends. They say that I should always submit to their lead and that this is biblical. I tell them that male headship is specifically within the context of marriage, but they won’t listen to me because I am female. It’s sort of a catch-22. Am I to submit to the lead of all males within the church?'”