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The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde , the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, delivered a powerful sermon during a prayer service on Tuesday marking PresidentDuring the service at Washington National Cathedral, Budde made a powerful direct plea for “mercy” to Trump, who was seated in the front with his family members and Vice President JD Vance. She asked the newly inaugurated president to have “mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
“I was grateful for her courage to speak gently, but truthfully, to the most powerful man in the world,” he told HuffPost.Raushenbush said that Budde was “acting as a pastor” to Trump in that moment. She was “giving spiritual direction to someone in her congregation who happened to be the president of the United States.”
“We should speak up,” he said, particularly if you know a lot about a particular subject and “feel Jesus put you up to it.”“It makes me wonder just how much they know about the Christian faith or the church,” Willimon said of Budde’s critics.He added, “What they’re really saying is not that Christians shouldn’t engage in politics, it’s just Christians shouldn’t engage in politics that I don’t approve of.
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