On Mother’s Day, we awaken our curiosity about the radical origins of this holiday—born not from greeting card sentimentality, but from the fierce activism of mothers who demanded peace, fought for suffrage, and refused to send their sons to war. We explore how Anna Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe envisioned Mother’s Day as a call to maternal power and social change, asking what we might have forgotten about mothers as peace activists and agents of justice.
This service will be led by Rev. Danie Webber and Sue Johnstone.