‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ John 9:2

There will be many Churches today that will say that it is Mothering Sunday and that they will instead use a different Gospel reading. There will be many churches that will be pleased to avoid a passage that challenges their assumptions.

If Mothering Sunday is about anything, it is about unconditional love. It is about grace and graciousness. It is about forgiveness. It is about things that are absent from many churches. In much Protestant …