The Episcopal Church is infamous for its woke activism. Recently, Episcopal Bishop Miriam Budde lectured President Trump before his inauguration. Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young decided to follow her example and deliver a divisive political rant to his congregation. In his melodramatic sermon, he specifically singled out Trump’s policies on immigration, trade, and trans athletes.
” On January 6, rioters were pardoned and had their sentences commuted, and many wonder if right-wing militias now regard themselves as free from prosecution,” he said in a clip posted to X. ” $3 trillion in federal grants were frozen , and then unfrozen, a letter went out to 2 billion federal employees asking them to resign. Hundreds of other government employees, including civil servants at the highest level of justice, had been fired.”
He added that “25% tariffs were being imposed on our closest neighbors and trading partners. We see preparations for mass deportation. We hear ominously repeated phrases like” defending women from gender ideology extremism” and “restoring biological truth to the federal government” and both the trans people in our cities and in or congregation are just the type of people Jesus loved.”
He also used a historical example to underscore his points. “Now Karl Barth had a very dear friend whose name was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and they were writing back and forth to each other, and Barth encouraged Dietrich Bonhoeffer to return back to Germany,” Young replied. ” And Bonhoeffer was later hanged by the [Germans] shortly before his prison camp was liberated by the allies, and for the rest of his life, Bart had regrets about that.”
“He himself was put to trial. He sat across from three judges who convicted him. They banned him from ever speaking in public, and he violated this order, and on March 26 1935 he preached at the second free reform Synod in Siegen, Germany,” the preist dramatically explained. ” In Karl Barth’s case, we are hearing from a man who, like Bishop Budde, knew what it felt like to preach a sermon that could have gotten him killed.”
This echoes a speech from Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, who gave a controversial sermon at the Washington Cathedral earlier this month. He claimed that immigrants, refugees, and trans people are central to the gospel. “In God’s Kingdom, immigrants and refugees, transgender people, the poor, and the marginalized are not at the edges, fearful and alone. They are at the center of the Gospel story,” Rowe posited.
“We struggle with how to make sense of what all that means,” Rowe preached. “Because we are beset by the powers and principalities of the world that don’t see it the way Jesus does. We’re told by the kings and the rulers of the day that the rich shall be first.” He went on to say that politics has overly affected this message and then ironically ranted about liberal issues.
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He said, “The enemy is bound and determined to sow division among us, to make us forget who we are and what kingdom that we belong.” He concluded his remarks with a call to “greet with a sign of peace those who voted for the candidate we couldn’t stand and to be in the communion line alongside people who don’t live like us or look like us or even love like us.”
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