# Sara Cunningham

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02 | Part 1 | The Reckoning: When Fear Delays Love | Sara Cunningham

Show Notes Before Free Mom Hugs became a global embrace, it was one mother’s reckoning with fear, faith, and the cost of delay. In this first half of a two-part conversation, Sara Cunningham—founder of Free Mom Hugs and author of How We Sleep at Night—joins Jeff Click to revisit the years she resis…

02 | Part 2 | The Redemption: From Heartbreak to a Global Embrace | Sara Cunningham

In this continuation, Sara Cunningham, founder of Free Mom Hugs and author of How We Sleep at Night, sits with Jeff Click to trace the turning points that reshaped her faith, her activism, and the direction of her life. Together they revisit her first intentional interaction with the LGBTQ+ communi…

Find Your People - Episode 114

AAAAAAAND we’re back! Welcome to Episode 114 and 2026! We are so excited to be back together and getting caught up on Christmas and New Year’s happenings. We are getting really excited about the 2026 Winter Olympics and hope you will watch along with us next month. Katie has some great books for us…

Women In Policing

As of 2023 there were over 71,000 sworn police officers in Ontario. A small percentage of that however are women, and an even smaller percent make it to become police chiefs or deputy police chiefs in their careers. In this episode we sat down with three of them to hear their stories and learn what…

Episode 54: The Founder of "Free Mom Hugs" shares the internal battle that led to a worldwide nonprofit

Sara Cunningham joins Erin for a raw, honest conversation about how she founded the nonprofit "Free Mom Hugs," after attending a pride celebration in Oklahoma City in 2015. For years, Sara faithfully attended a church that preached and believed anyone not heterosexual is an ultimate sinner who will…

[ENCORE] Beyond the Hug: How Sara Cunningham Built a Movement of Radical Welcome

Description:It's Pride Month, and we couldn't think of a better time to bring back one of our most beloved episodes. Sara Cunningham — founder of Free Mom Hugs — first joined Jen back in 2018, when she was a Christian mom from Oklahoma City who had just started showing up at Pride parades with a ha…

From Rejecting Her Gay Son to Hugging Thousands of LGBTQ — Founder of FREE MOM HUGS Shares Her Faith Journey

Sara Cunningham, founder of Free Mom Hugs, shares the powerful story of how she went from rejecting her gay son to leading an international movement that has impacted hundreds of thousands. It wasn't easy. When Sara's youngest son came out to her at 21, she didn't take it well. She was frozen in f…

40. Sara Cunningham (Free Mom Hugs) & Kelly Mellen (Making Things Right) – Women of Faith Showing Up for the Queer Community

40. Sara Cunningham (Free Mom Hugs) & Kelly Mellen (Making Things Right) – Women of Faith Showing Up for the Queer Community What does it look like when women of faith choose love over fear and show up for the queer community? Alexis sits down with Sara Cunningham, founder of Free Mom Hugs, and Kel…

S3 EP2 From the Pew to the Parade

This episode features the leaders of Free Mom Hugs, a global movement with over 40,000 volunteers, all starting with one mom at a Pride Parade. We hear from Executive Director, Karrie Fletcher-Rollins, and founder, Sara Cunningham.

Live from the Wild Goose Festival With Sarah Cunningham

We are live from the Wild Goose Festival, and we're sitting down with Sara Cunningham, founder of Free Mom Hugs, for a conversation about faith, family, regret, courage, and the transforming power of love. Sara shares her journey from struggling to accept her gay son to becoming an accidental acti…