This page is part of a resource collection on organizing against the second Trump administration.

Image: Bishop Mariann Budde preaching at the Service of Prayer for the Nation, the day after Trump’s inauguration. Looking him in the eye, she said: “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families who fear for their lives. And the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in our poultry farms and meat-packing plants . . . Have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.”

2025

January 21.   Washington National Cathedral: Sermon by Reverend Mariann Budde.

January 22.   NPR: Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR ‘I won’t apologize’ for sermon addressing Trump.

January 30: National Council of Churches Urges ICE to Refrain from Entering Churches and Other Sensitive Locations.

February 11.   Christopher White: Pope decries ‘major crisis’ of Trump’s mass deportation plans, rejects Vance’s theology.

February 13.   Maya Yang: ‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan.

March 12.   Michel Martin: Faith leaders push back against Trump cuts and what they see as erosion of democracy.

April 16.   NPR: Trump exploiting antisemitism fears to undermine rule of law, warns Jewish coalition.