Trump on the bishop Bermon will attract supporters to DC Cathedral
Last Sunday, the air in the National Cathedral of Washington caused special buzz. This was the first Sunday after the preaching around the world. At that time, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde “preaching the truth” in the country's prayer service became a virus phenomenon. On January 21, President President Donald Trump sat in front of her and advised him to pity, including representing LGBTQ+youth, refugees and immigrants. Trump has released a series of devastating policy actions and orders. For many people, BUDDE has always been the only person who really supports Trump and puts his voice and action in his own fear, pain and frustration.
As I recently reported Rolling stoneThe Cathedral and Buddhists have taken action to make Trump's responsibility trample on their spiritual value and support the history of harmful people.
Rev. Jen Butler has recently served as the director of national belief participation in the Harris-WALZ movement. I noticed that before she participated in the service on Sunday, she took a selfie with her friends in front of the cathedral. She told me that Bud's preaching said, “I have never seen this virus.” Bartler said: “She is the first person to find her foothold without fear.” “The more we are afraid of the tyrant The more powerful they have, the more sympathy we have, the less the power they have.
In the cathedral, there is a clear excitement among thousands of residents gathering the residents of the parish. Many people have found the same chairs they have watched in the video editing on their mobile phones. With its Gothic arch and towering gray stone walls, the sixth largest cathedral in the world may be a daunting space, especially for those Sunday holy sacraments is a relatively new experience or people think of unpopularity. People with memory. However, when the service starts, it does not seem to be important.
Rev. Randy Hollerith, president of the Cathedral, opened this service by letting residents of the diocene know that Budd was not here. He said: “I know that some of you may want to see the bishop in the cathedral.” But before he could say more, when he mentioned Bud's name, the crowd broke out for the first time in applause, and then cheered HOOT , Then there is a commotion and continuous applause. If someone is worried that the cathedral will rebound against friends, they are obviously wrong.
霍勒里斯说：“我们将把它装在她的前门上。”他解释说：“当教区的牧羊人的牧羊人在每个星期日拜访另一个教区时，他解释了她的缺席，然后进行For nearly two hours of service.
I did not speak, and disappointed with Bud's absence. Instead, they seem to have found more than the original, not just show the ability to support friends, but also can spend time in the community as other people.
“I'm scared, I'm worried,” Sue Watkins of Belsida told me that standing outside the cathedral. “We need to oppose all the negative things that Trump do.” She wanted to take action, but described that she didn't know what to do or how to support those who were engaged in resistance. She was not pious, but when she heard her friend, she was moved. Waterkins said: “She is the only person who speaks.” “I just want to support the bishop.” Waterkins said that participating in this service is “a trivial matter, but I think if we continue to do small things, they will Will become greater “
Rev. Jen Butler and Rev. Sue Watkins were taken in a selfie in a selfie outside the National Cathedral of Washington on Sunday, January 26, 2025. (Antonia juhasz photography)
Rev. Mitchell Felton will visit from South Carolina. He told me: “I think when the bishop does not exist, the bishop gives one of the clearest descriptions of moral leadership and moral clearness.” Rev. Felton was his friend Ian McCabe's friend Ian McCabe. He invited this service, and he has never been to the Cathedral, just like many of the other people I said. He talked about Bud's preaching: “I think this is very powerful and brave.” “She left her limbs,” he proved that he had her back.
A group of young women from George Washington University arrived side by side. Although they are not very devout, they often attract the services of the cathedral through their progressism, including the lack of typical homosexual phobia and a community consciousness that lacks other denominations. One of them, Claudia Elwell told me that she also wanted to support Bud on Sunday and said, “I found her comments is admirable.”
Elizabeth Sawyerr is from Sierra Leone. Her age was only exposed in silver and white hair, highlighting her original black braid. As a long -term resident of the cathedral, she did not understand “all the fuss”, and she told me that it looked very confused. “She didn't insult the president at all. She spoke from the inside. She sympathized,” she said.
Joanne Popkin has lived in Washington for 25 years and is a neighbor of Rev. Canon Naylor Cope, the church of the Cathedral Chiefs Canon. After Bud's preaching, Popkin wrote a letter and thanked her. Popkin's Walking dog Walking dog in the cathedral stopped and stopped, eager to share her ideas for her friends. “My God!” She shouted. “What's wrong with compassion and sympathy? We need! Isn't that made the United States great?!”
She added: “Hate is everywhere.”
If we keep silent, we are the same as conspiracy
More than a week before she soared to public -timeists, I interviewed Budde Rolling stone She hosted the funeral of President Jimmy Carter. Not only is she eager to talk to me about Carter, but she also talks about Trump. She told me: “Trump tries everything I represent.” Then she told me information about resistance.
She discussed the plan of her organization: “To get politics and find a constituency with similar ambitions. We must lobby, we must show and debate, as a believer, as part of a civic society, we must do all of these things.” Whether they will have an effect is another question, and one of the problems she said is largely controlled. She said: “Among the 13 years when I have been a traditional media bishop Rolling stoneIf we are lucky. “
“But one thing I can control is that I want to show up.” She then said: “As many of our leaders still say in politics, if we keep silent, then we are conspiracy.”
By preaching the truth of the truth last week, Bad hit far beyond the loyal nerves and had a public connection with Trump's action to take action. Since preaching, BUDDE has been a guest viewCNN and this Ruiqiu Macao PerformanceEssence She was interviewed by Diane Rehm, for this New YorkerAnd have appeared in almost all major news media across the country (and later). Actor of New Movies Jimpa, Regarding a homosexual father (John Lite), transsexual and non-binary teenagers (Od Mason Hed), weighed at Sundance, Mason Hyde (Mason-Hyde) The preaching of Budde is “beautiful”. Steven Colbert tore in his monologue about his friends. There are modular factors, T -shirts, and even Budde biscuits. In the editor of positive society and editors from California to Florida and New York, the response of people who support friends have always been overwhelming.
Faith leaders also show their support. The national spokesman of the bishop church called Budde “a valuable and trustworthy pastor.” They said: “We are standing in the bishop Budde and her appeal to Christianity and sympathy.” The loyal United States supports a petition for Budde. This is a Christian organization that supports social justice. She “continues to oppose Trump's unfair behavior” and can do the same thing from the Christian leaders in each denomination. Essence
Not all of them are positive. In a strong conservative rebound, Budde was threatened by death. So many, so that I hope that the Sunday service of the National Cathedral of Washington will attract protesters. But nothing can be visible.
Trump shared his temper for Budde on social media, asking Budde to firmly refuse the apology.
Learning brave
Friends and Trump have been here before. In 2017, the Cathedral hosted Trump's first employment prayer service, and the bishop was the bishop. Rev. Gary Hall is the Cathedral of the Cathedral from 2012 to 2015. He publicly criticized the decision to host prayer services by Trump, saying that the inauguration ceremony was legalized. Hall told Hall: “I think the belief community should be the center of resisting Donald Trump's vision in the United States.” Washington Post then.
The Cathedral not only presided over the service, but also agreed to the terms set by Trump, such as choosing missionaries, excluding preaching. Bud admits that some people feel that Trump's request seems to be “as if the church has surrendered the responsibility of preaching the truth and exerting power to exert power.” Friends told postal In 2017, this service is “we will not be used to solve specific policy problems or the opportunity we may have to encounter with the direction we may bring.”
However, with the progress of Trump's term, Bude and the Cathedral increasingly supported Trump, his government and his policies. Budde (such as Wiliam J. Barber II and the poor campaign with other belief leaders (such as William J. Barber II, they organized systemic racism, poverty and inequality, poverty, and inequality. Ecological destruction, war economy and militaryism. How can we learn bravery: the decisive moment of life and faithEssence Those decisive moments are “we are asking for courage, and our own surprise, we have done it.”
When we speak, BUDDE describes the moment of learning how to identify the action carefully: “When did the church have the opportunity to be heard in the harsh of the public voice, this may be beneficial, not just because it feels good, not because of the self, not because I am self -self , But because a line has passed, is it really dangerous if no one says? “
She also understood her instructing her. When she discussed her before the time when she opposed Trump and his policy, she told me: “President Trump did not wake up the next morning,” Oh, God, you are right. That's one I am really sorry for me. But it will not happen. '”
In this year's prayer service, Trump did not set the agenda, and Foet made a hot preaching, and the entire attention was much lower than her attention to the president's words. The 15 -minute preaching is about unity. She warns that this is not “polite or exhausted.” Even if we can't predict what the result is, or what happens in our lives.
She also provides a threat to Trump and a subtle criticism of the past or who voluntarily helps others during the natural disaster period. She usually has a great danger to herself. Or what position do they hold on specific issues. When we imitate their role models, we are in the best state. ”
BUDDE tries to build a community around moral actions to support individual bravery. Individuals can take a small step alone, but when they work together, organize and establish social movements, magnificent steps. She wrote in the book that when she realized that she was not alone, she raised a huge weight from her shoulders, but “occupied a place in fighting for greater struggle for justice.
My friend told me, we do n’t know, “If you become a generation who sees the change, or you are just the generation that you just inserted in the dark, you can pick it up in the next generation?” In any way, she thinks to take action It is our moral obligation.