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Julia Ward Howe Called for a Mothers' Peace Day in 1870
Women - Unite for Peace on Mother's Day With Music and Video by Yael Deckelbaum
In 1870, years before Woodrow Wilson instituted the current Mothers’ Day holiday in 1914, women’s peace advocate Julie Ward Howe issued a proclamation calling for a day for women from all over the globe to gather to seek peace and end war.
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of tears!…
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.” From the Mothers’ Proclamation, 1870
How can we begin to understand the violent brutality that haunts the Holy Land today?
See through the eyes of an American Lutheran pastor who has spent years of her life dedicated to the people there that she grew to love. She worked on the ground in Jerusalem, Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank for four years as the Communication Pastor for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) and as Assistant to then-Bishop Munib Younan. This is a scrapbook of stories, photos, poetry, information and learnings about the incredibly brave and resilient Palestinians and Israeli Jews working for justice and peace in the Holy Land.
The violent reality in today’s Holy Land will not stop until all voices are heard, honored and part of the solution. This is an introduction into a perspective that many have not heard. Learn through one woman’s encounter and journey with the Palestinians and Israeli Jews working for a just peace in this blessed but bruised land.