A MOTHER’S DAY MEDITATION James Ishmael Ford 11 May 2014 First Unitarian Church Providence, Rhode Island While preparing for this homily, for those of us not up on preacher lingo, a homily is a short sermon, I ran across a poem by Rhona McAdam, The Boston School of Cooking Cookbook. Here’s how it goes: “This is my mother’s cookbook, its spine loose/with age, the fabric bare of colour at the seams/and weak, so it must be held tenderly, the way/my... Read more