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Tag Archives: Mother’s Day Proclamation
Mothers, Lost & Found
May 9, 2021 The Unitarian Society, East Brunswick, NJ Rachel, 22 and Rozenah, 6 weeks Sarah, 22, and Diannah, 7 months Hagar, 39, and Augustus, 4; Mary, 2 Christeen, 37 and Diana, 9, Dorcus, 1 I say these names of … Continue reading
Mother's Day Proclamation in the Shadow of #BaltimoreUprising
Mother’s Day is upon us. In Unitarian Universalist congregations, Mother’s Day is often spent invoking the words of Unitarian Julia Ward Howe and her Mother’s Day Proclamation. She wrote it in 1870 as an international anti-war cry, having witnessed the … Continue reading
Not Your Mothers' Mother’s Day (sermon)
Delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Pittsfield on May 11, 2014 The Hallmark Card Company notwithstanding, your mother’s and grandmother’s and even perhaps great grandmother’s Mothers’ Day was called into being by a mother-daughter team. In the first decade … Continue reading