nourishing and nurturing them as ones who are equal heirs of the riches of grace poured out on them by Christ. The husband as the head of the wife does not replace Christ as her head because Christ is the head of all believers. This leads me to believe that Paul is making a deeper point about how he understands Christ’s love for the church (which is what he says) and at the same time offering husbands a way of understanding their role in new, Christian terms. This then makes sense of the idea of