Mother’s Day Pivots to Peace

Mother’s Day Pivots to Peace

In 1870, Julia Ward Howe penned her “Mother’s Day Proclamation,” calling for peace. Her words still ring with truth, calling us not to raise our children to kill another mother’s child but rather to gather together to “promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.”  She wrote this following the ravages and violence of the Civil War, a war like th…