The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue: Bishop Mariann Budde's ...

We stand with Budde and we encourage those who are criticizing her to study both the writings of our country’s founders, ...

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington garnered national headlines for rebuking President Donald ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or ...

A small but influential group of evangelicals argues that enforcing the law is as important as mercy, and has come to see Christian charities as the enemy.

A reader adds that it’s apparently a sin to upset President Donald Trump in the next four years. Another reader demands support for renewable energy.

Bishop Budde apparently did not read the memo that Trump is now above the law. Above criticism. And above all, not to be challenged by a female bishop.

Budde's words inspire decency and compassion in the face of a president who cares little for such qualities, the writer says.

Jesus was crystal clear that his followers are to extend mercy and goodness without qualification, writes Darrius D'wayne ...

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde gave the sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington. Directly addressing President Trump in the front row, she urged him to “have mercy” on immigrants and ...

President Trump just told the nation he’d felt “the providential hand of a loving God,” she said, with him and J.D. Vance sitting in the front row to her right. “In the name of our God, I ask you to ...

For the next four years there will be a lot of “never Trumpers” willing to remind everyone about Donald’s legacy as a crook, pathological liar, racist and convicted felon. If he’s willing to spread ...