How does a religion blogger not know that authority within the family has no bearing on anything outside the family?
There ya go. Your theological skills are measurably better than Ms Brooks'.
“How does a religion blogger not know that authority within the family has no bearing on anything outside the family?”
You beat me to it. Unless your employer is your husband, he has no say about your job.
No kidding, not only that, but this particular reading of Scripture is one of the most misunderstood or misinterpreted.
This was our second reading at my wedding Mass last June. It was also taught to us at our marriage seminar we attended. My guess is when a lot of people read this they see “Wives, be subordinate to your husbands...” and then tune everything else out.
There is so much more to this reading that many people — including this WaPo writer — miss.