The Gospel readings from The Sermon on the Plain are provocative and potent – calling on us to think differently about love, ...

How is it possible to produce two new sermons week after week, year after year? Thanks to a course given by Dr. Andrew W. Blackwood when I was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary ...

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During the inaugural sermon last Tuesday, Budde directly pleaded for Trump to have mercy on those concerned about his return to office, including the LGBTQ+ and migrant workers communities.

The Right Reverend Marianna Edgar Budde, an Episcopal bishop of Washington during her sermon, spoke a sermon last week that included a direct request to President Donald Trump, raising questions ...

Host Amanda Henderson and RNS Executive Editor Roxanne Stone delve into how this sermon—calling for mercy and justice—reshaped the national discourse and exposed the fractures between ...

And said “the service was very boring.” This would be like Dictator Donald demanding an apology for the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ by Jesus of Nazareth; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sharing ...

As to the sermon being an example of political activism and a distorted message, half these politicians are up to their steeples in misinformation, misinterpretation and plain bad manners ... “In his ...

By ambushing or lecturing, do we perhaps mean “delivering a sermon as is usual in every church service and therefore doing her actual job”? There was outrage that the bishop spoke to Trump at ...

Watch the segment below. Watch on Deadline During yesterday’s inauguration prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, Budde said to Trump during her sermon, “In the name of our God ...

Rev. Mariann Budde pretty much had the structure of her sermon for the next day finished. The Episcopal bishop of Washington had ruminated on it ever since she was announced in October as the ...

"Let me make one final plea, Mr. President," Bishop Mariann Budde said in her 15-minute sermon. "Millions have put their trust in you. And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the ...