“We need to find the face of Christ in the faces of marginalized,” Bishop Rowe said, adding that in Christ’s kingdom, “the people at the edge are in the center.”
Bishop Mariann Budde: “I wanted to emphasize respect, honor, and dignity of every human being. Unity requires mercy and compassion. Many people are really scared.”
The Bishop of Washington called on a glowering President Trump to be gracious to LGBT people and immigrants in an emotional close to her sermon. “They could do much better,” the president said of the service.
"If people of goodwill and human decency come together and say, ‘we’re going to be a people of love ... we’re going to be a people worthy of the name American', then, we will be a shining city upon a hill."
