For the week leading to Mothers Day, I’m going to post a variety of links, talks, and other related materials. We welcome your comments as we try to highlight some discussions about mothers, motherhood, and Mother’s Day.
LDS Newsroom
- New Bishops' Central Storehouse Ready to Serve the Needy January 27, 2012
- Actors Share Nativity Experiences With Life of Jesus Christ Bible Videos December 8, 2011
- First Standardized International Church Newsroom Website Launched August 30, 2011
- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Compliments Church’s Welfare Program August 15, 2011
- Apostles Visit Church Members in India, Hong Kong and Mongolia May 27, 2011
- Church President Thomas S. Monson Rededicates Atlanta Georgia Temple After Renovation May 1, 2011
- Seven Anchors to Religiousness of Youth April 28, 2011
- Latter-day Saints Across the Globe Watch, Listen to General Conference April 3, 2011
- Mormons in Africa: A Bright Land of Hope February 22, 2011
- New Conference Encourages Innovation in Genealogy Technology February 10, 2011
Week of Mother’s Day
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Conferences and Events
- Exploring Mormon Conceptions of Apostasy
- Daniel C. Peterson: "Contemporary Connections between Middle Eastern Countries and the Church"
- Tammi J. Schneider: "Women in the Bible: The Past, Present and Future of Biblical Scholarship"
- LDS Tech Conference
- Newell Bringhurst and Craig Foster: "The Mormon Quest for the Presidency"
- Sunstone West
- Sunstone Kirtland
- Mormon Media Studies Symposium
- Untold Nauvoo Stories Symposium
- The Mormon Quest for the Presidency Before Romney and Huntsman
Calls for Papers
- Mormon Media Studies Symposium
- Sunstone Kirtland
- Sunstone West
- Sunstone Symposium: MORMONS AND MORMONISM AS A POLITICAL FORCE
- BYU Religious Education Student Symposium
- RESTORATION STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
- Claremont Mormon Studies Student Association
- Mormon History Association
- Church History Symposium
- Conference on the History of Mormonism in Latin America and the US-Mexico Borderlands
Here’s maybe a dumb question for you, Kaimi and T&S readers:
Do Mormons celebrate Mother’s Day more than other religions?
I grew up in a fairly non-religious household that’s probably best described as “bad Protestant.” My father was a backslidden Baptist and my mother was a backslidden Nazarene and we would sometimes to to church around Christmas or Easter, but not a lot. I don’t remember celebrating Mother’s Day a lot. Dad would get Mom something on Mother’s Day or make us help do chores or something nice for Mom, but that was it.
When I married my charming Mormon husband, I was a little surprised the following May when he got me a gift for Mother’s Day. “But I’m not a mom,” I protested. “Doesn’t matter. In our family, we get all the women presents on Mother’s Day.” Huh. Okay, I thought. And that tradition has continued, though it makes a bit more sense to me now that I’m officially a mother on Mother’s Day.
Do other Mormons have traditions like that? Is it an LDS thing to go out of your way to celebrate Mother’s Day and extend honors to all women even if they aren’t technically mothers? Or was that just one more thing I missed out on simply because my own family didn’t practice it?
I grew up believing that Mormons celebrated it *less*…
I dunno. One Sunday a year the kids sing in Sacrament Meeting, and the teenagers might perform a service by taking over the Primary. Maybe some roses or cookies get passed out to the moms.
The rest of it would be individual family traditions.