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Mother’s Day: Faithful Women of the World Unite!
By
Diana Butler Bass
At first glance, Mother’s Day appears a quaint and conservative holiday, a sort of greeting card moment, honoring 1950s values, a historical throw back to old-fashioned notions of hearth and home. Let’s correct that impression by saying: Happy Radical Mother’s Day. In May 1907, Anna Jarvis, a member of a Methodist congregation in Grafton, West…
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