May 10, 2026
Mother's Day
Flower Communion & “A Bouquet of Mothering”
May 11, 2025
- Anna Fadden
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Thea Shapiro
- Culture for One
- Flower Communion
- Mother's Day
- Time for All Ages
- values
We celebrated Mother’s Day and Flower Communion.
“Necessity Is the Mother of Invention”
May 14, 2023
We acknowledge Mother’s Day, and my sermon continues the discussion of what we can learn from the “Spirituality of the Decades” services we had this year.
“Motherhood and Choice”
May 8, 2022
- Debbie Eston
- Jen Jaksa
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Mother's Day
- parenthood
- reproductive justice
- Time for All Ages
We think about motherhood for Mother’s Day, in light of the leaked Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade.
“Take My Mother”
May 9, 2021
- Caroline Marvin
- Elise Bon-Rudin
- Jen Jaksa
- Kathryn Pfaltzgraff
- Lori Grant
- Niela Miller
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Tatum Joy Hammer
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- Mother's Day
- online worship
- parenthood
- story
- Time for All Ages
For our Mother’s Day Sunday, five different congregants shared stories of their own mothers.
“Mothering Sunday”
May 10, 2020
- Lynn Courtney
- Rev. Lara Hoke
- Vicki Merriam
- The Book of Ruth
- coronavirus
- covid-19
- Mother's Day
- online worship
- parenthood
- Ruth and Naomi
- Time for All Ages
For Mother’s Day in our online-only worship, we explored “motherly love” and nurturing. After my remarks, there is a video with pictures submitted by members and friends of FCU of people who offered them motherly love, or to whom they offered such love. If you watch the video on YouTube, you can click on “show more” and use the blue time stamps to go forward (or back) to any particular worship element.
“Mother’s Day and the Horrible Mug”
May 12, 2019
Together we considered Mother’s Day and motherly love. I was inspired by (in addition to my own mother) the poem “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins, which was our reading. You can read the poem here. Also, check out this horrible mug!
