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When a bishop called on Trump to ‘have mercy’, she was following the old Christian tradition of parrhesia

By Morwenna Ludlow, Professor of Christian History and Theology, University of Exeter

When Bishop Mariann Budde closed her sermon at the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21 she called on Donald Trump, who was sitting in front of her, “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now”.

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