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Thoughts on the news
I recognized the Look on Bishop Mariann Budde’s Face
And it said much more than the look on Trump’s
I’m not one to bury my head in the sand about politics or religion in general, but I’ll admit I’ve been trying to take a couple of weeks off. I’ve been leaning on the perfect slogan of Comedy Central’s 2024 election coverage: Nothing We Can Do About It Now. I know Trump is working that big comical Kindergarten Sharpie just as hard as he can, signing executive orders that may as well be direct donation receipts (so much for that swamp he was going to drain). Some of it will be reversed, and some of it probably won’t. There’s nothing we can do about it (right) now.
So when my wife came to me with the news that Trump had been confronted with actual biblical teachings on television — she’s a fellow survivor of what I’ll gently call the Church of Neglect and Harm — I had a lot of questions.
Like, who managed that? And how?
We watched the highlights together as the Episcopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, Washington’s first female to serve in the role, asked Trump directly to have mercy on immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community. She pointed out the Christian principles of being merciful to strangers, honoring the dignity of all people, and…
