AlbertMohler.com – On Second Thought — Why Mother’s Day is a Bad Idea

Now that Mother’s Day for 2009 is over, perhaps a bit of second-guessing is in order. Americans have celebrated Mother’s Day for over a century, and the observance has grown to become one of the nation’s most popular annual events. But is it good for motherhood?
Back in 1858, Anna Reeves Jarvis organized the precursor to Mother’s Day as a way to protest a lack of sanitation in rural Appalachia. Later, Julia Ward Howe would organize what became “Mother’s Days for Peace” in protest of all war. Howe, who wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” pledged: “Our husbands shall not come to us reeking with carnage. . . . Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience.” MORE:  AlbertMohler.com – On Second Thought — Why Mother’s Day is a Bad Idea

Mother's Day and the Infertile

by Russell D. Moore (Moore to the Point)
Mother’s Day is a particularly sensitive time in many congregations, and pastors and church leaders often don’t even know it. This is true even in congregations that don’t focus the entire service around the event as if it were a feast day on the church’s liturgical calendar. Infertile women, and often their husbands, are still often grieving in the shadows.  MORE

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