Bishop Budde was speaking Hebrew
Remember the 10th commandment?
"Thou shalt not covet"?
This past week, many preachers violated that commandment.
They were coveting the sermon Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivered at the National Cathedral during a service the day after President Donald Trump's inauguration, in which she pleaded with Trump to show mercy to the most vulnerable among us.
(Speaking Jewish right now: If I had been blessed with the opportunity to address the president, I would not have used the word "mercy." I would have asked him to show compassion and to do justice. But that's me).
Many of my colleagues and…
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