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Much ado About What?

22  Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23  For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Ephesians 5:22-24  If you're a woman and you've been to church more than like, once, you heard a thing or two about submission. It's treated a little like a dirty word. Many women cringe when the topic comes up. I read a post this week over on Prodigal Magazine that provoked quite a frenzy of comments. I read about 350 of the over 500 comments on this topic of a woman submitting to her husband. It made my head hurt. But I couldn't stop reading. I was so surprised at the sheer amount and utter indignation from this crowd of what I believe are mostly christian women. Over and over again so many commenters said that it isn't biblical to say the wife must submit to her hu