{"id":2337,"date":"2025-01-27T13:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/some-liberal-christians-find-comfort-in-bishop-mariann-buddes-plea-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:04:37","slug":"some-liberal-christians-find-comfort-in-bishop-mariann-buddes-plea-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/some-liberal-christians-find-comfort-in-bishop-mariann-buddes-plea-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Liberal Christians Find Comfort in Bishop Mariann Budde\u2019s Plea to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Millions of Christians in churches around the world heard the same passage on Sunday from the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus declares his intentions \u201cto proclaim good news to the poor,\u201d as he speaks to people gathered in a synagogue in Nazareth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Dallas, the passage felt particularly appropriate this week, though it was chosen years ago as part of a three-year cycle of Bible readings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s Jesus 101,\u201d said Michelle Williams, 55, a parishioner at the church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was the first Sunday since a fellow Episcopalian, Bishop Mariann E. Budde, delivered a sermon that many observers heard as an echo of passages like the one from Luke. Speaking at a prayer service at the National Cathedral in Washington the day after President Trump\u2019s inauguration, she faced the president and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/22\/us\/trump-bishop-plea.html\" title=\"\">made a direct plea<\/a>: \u201cHave mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the service, Mr. Trump called Bishop Budde a \u201cRadical Left hard line Trump hater\u201d in a social media post. His foes immediately hailed her as an icon of the resistance. But for many progressive Christians and their leaders, the confrontation was more than a moment of political catharsis. It was about more than Mr. Trump. It was an eloquent expression of basic Christian theology, expressed in an extraordinarily public forum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sara Ivey, 71, another parishioner at Church of the Transfiguration, said the sermon reminded her of Psalm 103, which describes God as \u201cmerciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.\u201d The sermon, which she watched live, made her \u201cvery proud to be an Episcopalian,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bishop Budde\u2019s sermon delivered a jolt of energy in many mainline Protestant churches, whose numbers and influence have declined steeply from a high point in the middle of the last century. Some mainline Christians have sensed an unsettling whiff of irrelevance that has accelerated in the Trump era, as Mr. Trump has elevated a stream of conservative, political Christianity whose leaders in some cases do not even consider Bishop Budde a fellow Christian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So it was startling for many progressive Christians and their leaders to see Bishop Budde\u2019s sermon overpower the prayers that were delivered at the inauguration by clergy members who are more sympathetic to Mr. Trump \u2014 and to see her rely primarily on theological principles themselves, rather than advocating specific policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA plea for mercy, a recognition of the stranger in our midst, is core to the faith,\u201d Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, the Episcopal Church\u2019s top clerical leader, said in an interview. \u201cIt is radical, given the order of the world around us \u2014 it is countercultural \u2014 but it\u2019s not bound to political ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Across the country, mainline churchgoers proudly shared clips of Bishop Budde\u2019s sermon online and made plans to read her books with their book clubs. Priests and pastors discussed the sermon in church newsletters and in intimate conversations with their members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The clergy members addressed it directly in their sermons, too. At Church of the Transfiguration, the associate rector, the Rev. Ted Clarkson, acknowledged to the congregation that aspects of the bishop\u2019s sermon might have been \u201chard to hear.\u201d But \u201cmercy is truth,\u201d he said, \u201cand I expect a bishop to preach the truth.\u201d (Bishop Budde preached on Sunday at a church in Maryland.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Indeed, not all mainline churchgoers appreciated her message. Some at Church of the Transfiguration worried that it had inappropriately politicized the pulpit, or had allied the denomination with one political party, according to the Rev. R. Casey Shobe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">White mainline Christians in the United States are politically diverse, in contrast to white evangelicals, who are overwhelmingly Republican. There are still <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/the-coming-extinction-of-the-white\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more Republicans than Democrats in mainline pews<\/a>, according to an analysis of the 2022 Cooperative Election Study by Ryan Burge, a political scientist. (Episcopalians are something of an exception; 58 percent of them are Democrats.) Even so, the mainline tradition tends to be theologically liberal, preferring Bishop Budde\u2019s message of mercy over an emphasis on judgment or authority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pastor Jonathan Barker of Grace Lutheran Church in Kenosha, Wis., said he felt a thrill seeing the clips of the sermon spread across his social media feeds, popping up from Lutheran colleagues, parishioners and people he would not have guessed to be supportive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His congregation is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and it was active in mobilizing support for Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by a white police officer in Kenosha in 2020. Some 50 years ago, at the height of mainline strength, the Grace congregation had about 1,500 people. Now it has about 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are willing to do things that other people would find hopeless,\u201d he said. \u201cOur Christian tradition is marked by hope. This feels like a time where we need hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Others who had long ago stopped attending services wondered if there might be a place for them after all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt gave me hope \u2014 maybe I\u2019ll be able to go to church again,\u201d said Amy Tankard, 59, who lives in a rural part of eastern Virginia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Tankard had once been part of a church in the Presbyterian Church (USA), with a female pastor. But the church splintered during the coronavirus pandemic, she said, and the pastor was ousted over a dispute over whether the church should stay closed because of health concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Tankard told her husband she was not setting foot back in church until the church stopped being so involved in conservative politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt feels like, if you are not with the current government, then you are not with church,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I miss it. I think it\u2019s why her sermon meant so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was too soon to know whether one sensational moment in one pulpit was enough to lead people like Ms. Tankard back to church. Mainline Protestants now comprise about 14 percent of American adults, according to the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religious-landscape-study\/database\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research Center<\/a>. Evangelical Protestants represent about 25 percent, and Catholics 20 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has abandoned the mainline. He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/10\/23\/exclusive-trump-confirmed-a-presbyterian-now-identifies-as-non-denominational-christian\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced in 2020<\/a> that he no longer identified with the Presbyterian denomination that confirmed him as a child, but rather as a nondenominational Christian, a tradition closely associated with evangelicalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bishop Budde\u2019s message seemed to be resonating beyond the usual audience for Sunday sermons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her most recent book, \u201cHow We Learn to Be Brave,\u201d was listed as temporarily out of stock on Amazon Friday afternoon. At that time, the book was No. 4 on the site\u2019s list of best-sellers, 11 spots above Vice President JD Vance\u2019s memoir \u201cHillbilly Elegy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The publisher of Bishop Budde\u2019s book, Avery, an imprint of Penguin Books, was scrambling to reprint \u201ca significant number of books,\u201d said Tracy Behar, Avery\u2019s president and publisher. She declined to share specifics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Church of the Transfiguration, Father Shobe pointed out that the sermon was more than just the one brief passage that made headlines. In her remarks, he said, Bishop Budde explored more deeply the concept of unity in complex times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The last few months had been difficult for many people in the mostly progressive Dallas congregation, he said. But they were determined not to spend the next four years fixating on Mr. Trump\u2019s every attention-grabbing move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to be much more focused on the broader work of the kingdom of God, which is beautiful and good and true,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we can focus on that which is beautiful and good and true, we will ride through these four years and find our purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/us\/bishop-mariann-budde-trump-christian.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Christians in churches around the world heard the same passage on Sunday from the Gospel of Luke. 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