Not sure if this is true but I've heard of a religious group I think it's called the Pentecostal Church in Pennsylvania (?) where all ladies are required to have long hair, even some who've never cut it in their life !!   Makes you wonder if they insist that new ladies joining must never cut it again as well ?

So in turn I wondered whose had their hair long the longest ? And what's the longest and shortest it's ever been ?  

I am Pentecostal.  Although I do not believe it is a sin to cut my hair according to the list of sins in Galations 5.  As for the church it is a doctrine(teaching) issue based on 1Cor. 11.  I have been growing my hair since 1996 when I came into the church.  It was as short as some mens (shaved back and sides, 2 1/2" on top).  It now measures 40" one length.  We have 2 ladies here with floor length hair, but most of them have reached terminal around thigh length.

Debr

My hair has been really long for about eight years now.......waistlength to buttlength is the longest so far.  I love it long!

There is an ongoing debate on other websites and in life about Pentecostals and long hair.  Most Pentecostals will not force their personal rules about hair and dress on others.  Of course they like to influence for modest dress and behavior.  Cutting hair is a conviction that God has pressed on the hearts of Pentecostal women.  There is no rule in our church that says to enter you must lay down your scissors and makeup at the door.  It is only a sin if God has truley convicted you and you believe that it is wrong.  I wouldn't call Pentecostals a sect.  Sect is not how we see ourselves.

Hi Paulagail and welcome  

As a guy I’ve always been very interested in the Pentecostal Church and their wonderful doctrines towards women’s long hair, as I don’t think it exists anywhere else outside of America ? And although I know very little at all about the Church I’d really love to learn more !  

I’ve often wondered that those women who passionately love long hair both for itself and for the whole experience etc., might perhaps see it all very differently to Pentecostal women who I’ve understood see long hair as more of a homage and recognition of God’s will, with little actual love of long hair itself ?

I’ve also felt, though this might not be for all the right reasons (lol !), that a lot of long haired loving ladies who are not particularly religious one way or the other yet who feel they’ve perhaps been brainwashed into thinking and feeling long hair is not suitable on older women, or have had to constantly put up with supposed friends suggesting they donate it to organisations such as Locks of Love, might feel they’d like the option if it were possible of joining the Pentecostal Church simply to feel less persecuted and protected from Society in general ? If only because Love is so central to all Church beliefs and messages and whose doors are always open to everyone regardless.

Perhaps there already is one ? If not, well I think it would be really nice if there was such a haven or Church for them such as the Pentecostal Church, as the Church in general has traditionally always been such a safe place of refuge from persecution for people of all beliefs and persuasions for centuries. At the very least it would always be based on heartfelt Love. Then those in society who constantly promote these absurd and highly subjective strictures upon such long haired loving ladies would be forced to instantly recognise them, leave them alone and above all show respect to them at last. Especially Locks of Love !  

On the other hand would all of this be too much to ask and/ or too insincere ?

Thanks a lot anyway for letting me get up onto my little soap box !   Either way I’d also really love to hear and learn more about the Pentecostal Church’s social long hair side of things as well sometime. Your local summer fairs and outings and so on !!

Who knows ? One day this might even get to include genuine long hair loving guys as well ! Now that would be reeeally wonderful !