How on earth did the alphabet bishop get a platform in a ceremony to plea for mercy etc for alphabet people and their sinful lifestyles ??????????????
Proximity, position in the Episcopal Church, and local influence.
President Trump and Vice President Vance attended church at St John's Episcopal Church before the inauguration. This used to be a tradition, which started in the 1800s
Inauguration Day: All about ‘Church of the Presidents’ that Donald Trump is visiting today
FP Explainers• January 20, 2025, 18:34:39 IST
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4. James Madison (1809-1817) was the first US president to worship at the St John’s Episcopal Church. The church invited Madison, who was at the time president, a free pew. The church would rent out its pews to parishioners Madison responded by paying the annual rent out of his own pocket.
5. Madison, by choosing pew no 28 (now 54), kicked off the tradition of American presidents worshipping at St John’s. By the time Abraham Lincoln was sworn into office, the place of worship had well established its reputation as “the Church of the Presidents.”
6. This was largely due to its location – in sight of the White House and merely two blocks away — and because the rich and powerful including several presidents becoming its members and frequenting its pews.
7. Indeed, by now a visit to the church from the president-elect was considered mandatory. Lincoln, who was President-elect, first attended the church on February 24, 1861 – the day after he arrived in Washington. Lincoln visited the church with William Seward, who would serve as secretary of state in his admiration."
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In keeping with tradition, Donald Trump is attending the St John’s Episcopal Church this morning in Washington’s Lafayette Square before being sworn in as the President of the United States. But what do we know about the ‘Church of the Presidents?’ When did it become a tradition for the US...
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Trump Attends ‘Nonpartisan’ Service at Church He Once Used for Photo-Op
By Mitchell Atencio
Jan 20, 2025
"The leaders of St. John’s, Lafayette Square, an Episcopal church in Washington, D.C., knew they wanted the second inaugural prayer service for President Donald Trump to be different than the first.
Beginning in 1933 with a private service
attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt before his inauguration, the historic church has hosted 14 morning prayer services to honor incoming presidents, including today’s service honoring Trump and Vice President JD Vance. The 8:30 a.m. prayer service was the first event on the Inauguration Day
calendar.
Rev. Robert W. Fisher, the
rector of the church, told
Sojourners in an email before the service that the church was making a concerted effort to return the service to its traditional roots.
“The service is meant to be centered on God and humility before the almighty, and to be a call to ‘the better angels of our nature’ for those who are entering into a new season of service,” Fisher wrote. “It is less oriented to the personality of the individual about to become president, and more oriented to the higher responsibilities of the office. That is one major way that it is more inline with the origins of this tradition as opposed to the more recent services.”"
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At the 2017 service, a guest preacher said Trump was chosen by God to “build a wall.” This year, the church's rector hoped to return the service to its traditional roots.
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"Budde currently serves as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, the first woman to hold this position. She has led the diocese since 2011.
Before her election to the diocese, she was the rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, where she spent 18 years."
The ELCA and Episcopal churches are in altar and pulpit fellowship [sigh]
They've been ordaining women and homosexuals, and officiating homosexual "marriages"/unions, for decades.
Both denominations are very activist in acceptance of LGBTQABCXYZ, which is clearly against what the Bible teaches.
The clergy of the conservative Lutheran churches (LCMS, WELS, ELS, CLB) probably wouldn't have accepted an invitation because of the ecumenism, interfaith, promotion of sin, and not being allowed/"inappropriateness" for the intention of the invitation, to preach The Gospel in all its splendor, exclusiveness, and offensiveness in that particular situation. The LCMS almost split over this after 9-11 Memorial in which an LCMS Pastor, who had followed the denomination bylaws and gotten special permission due to the "extraordinary" situation offered a separate prayer at the Memorial. There were clergy of various faiths seated on the platform. If Pastor Behnke had been more exclusive, explicit, and offensive in his prayer, the more conservative-minded clergy and members, who demanded his defrocking, excommunication, etc., probably would have been a lot more OK with it.
IDK if Baptists/non-denominational clergy have the same prohibitions about not participating in ecumenical Christian, inter-faith, etc. situations from their churches/denominations. Maybe someone here can answer?
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