Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington garnered national headlines for rebuking President Donald Trump s policies during the Inauguration Day service at ...

He held up a Bible after the area had been cleared of peaceful protesters. In 2023, Budde published a book that reflected on that summer of 2020 after George Floyd’s death, when she criticized the ...

Budde shared her response to Trump's scathing critique of her church service on The View -- detailing her intentions behind her sermon, which saw her ask the president to show "mercy" toward the ...

“We are proud of our alumna Bishop Marianne Budde for her faithfulness to the Biblical witness. To ask a President to be merciful is in the tradition of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible,” Ian ...

The bishop asked President Trump publicly to “have mercy,” electrifying some liberal churchgoers in an era dominated by conservative versions of Christianity. By Ruth Graham and Elizabeth Dias ...

President Trump took to his personal social media platform recently to lambast and denigrate Episcopal Bishop Marianne Edgar Budde, who presided over the inaugural prayer service at the National ...

Bishop Marianne Budde has defended pleading with Donald Trump to show mercy on vulnerable people in the United States after he was sworn in as the 47th president. The religious leader, 65 ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: At the inaugural prayer service Tuesday, Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, appealed to President Donald Trump to "have mercy" on the LGBTQ+ community and ...