Genuine Christian values showed up in Washington, brought by a liberal, Episcopalian female bishop

[lees1975]

not by some foot stomping, fundamentalist, conservative Evangelical. In fact, it made them mad.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/when-genuine-christian-values-showed-up.html

It was the female Episcopalian Bishop of Washington, a prelate of the liberal, progressive, left wing Episcopal Church, a post which makes her essentially the "pastor" of the Washington National Cathedral. The Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, an Episcopal postulant, deacon, priest, rector and now Bishop of Washington, which is essentially leadership over the diocese where the church's headquarters are located.

There are some implications involved in her speaking truth to power that really shine some light on the hypocrisy, heresy, apostasy and failure of conservative Evangelicalism to be the testimony for Jesus Christ that they claim to be, and that they criticize the Episcopal Church for not being. The world has just turned upside down, right on top of some of the biggest hypocrites in the United States.

Conservative Evangelical leaders, for the most part, label the Episcopal Church as "liberal," and consider it in apostasy for the manner in which it interprets Christian faith, claiming that it either deliberately ignores parts of the scripture that doesn't support its progressive social views, or that it misinterprets them to suit its own presuppositions. They are dismissive of its theology and doctrine, but even more so of its liberal social practices that include its acceptance of gays and lesbians into church membership and into orgination as clergy, and what they consider to be a soft position on abortion rights. And on the basis of those interpretations, they claim that the Episcopal church cannot be evangelistic, in that it is not capable of leading people to a Christian conversion experience.

And, of course, conservative Evangelicals are opposed to allowing women to serve in their clergy, specifically with the title "Bishop, Pastor, Overseer or Elder," which they claim are different titles for the same "office" within the church because being the "husband of one wife" is one of the qualifications to serve in this office, found in I Timothy 3.

So, when Bishop Mariann Budde preached the sermon in the inauguration's prayer service in the National Cathedral, a church which falls under her jurisdiction as Bishop of Washington, she "correctly divided the word of truth," a Biblical phrase from Timothy that Evangelicals often use as a prooftext to proclaim their own correctness. Preaching from Matthew 25, Bishop Budde laid out some principles of the Christian gospel that seem to be foreign to most of the Republicans gathered in the Cathedral, and to those in Trump's MAGA movement.

And from the reaction she got from Trump supporters among the conservative Evangelical leadership across the country, including conservative Evangelicals in Congress, like Mike Johnson, and those among the prominent Evangelical leadership that openly supports Trump shamelessly, she hit a live nerve.

[LonePirate]

1. MAGA Jesus and Biblical Jesus are two completely different people.

Bishop Budde follows Biblical Jesus and the MAGA crowd were outraged.

[DaBronx]

2. So proud of Bishop Budde

Not religious but I appreciate her stance, courage and her urgency in shining a light while speaking truth to power.
It was inspiring to listen to her. She is one of the few people who have directly stood up to him. I applaud her with the most enthusiastic clapping!

[ck4829]

3. Indeed. K&R