Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, who called on President Donald Trump at a televised national prayer service on January 22 to show mercy to immigrants and LGBTQ+ persons, is now seeing her 2023 book, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith, rushed into a second printing.

Hannah Steigmeyer, editor at Avery, told PW on Thursday that the book, which had a first run printing of 10,000 copies, is in "high demand," adding that the Penguin Random House imprint is "reprinting as quickly as possible to get more books into the marketplace." The publisher and author are also in conversations about a follow-up book, she said.

The book opens with a chapter on the first time Budde tangled with Trump in 2020, during his first term. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a peaceful crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators in the park in front of the White House were strong-armed away by National Park Police so Trump could walk across a park to pose for a photo in front of St. John's Church, where he held up a Bible.

Budde excoriated the president in the Washington Post at the time for using a church in her diocese as a political prop while holding up a Bible, which she said “declares that God is love.” She told the Post, “Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence.... We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us.”

In the aftermath of that confrontation, Budde says, literary agents approached her to consider doing a book about the moments when "someone has to speak up." That book, How We Learn to Be Brave talks about why and how to summon the courage. Tuesday, from the Cathedral pulpit, she told the president, "In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now."

Trump has since demanded an apology. Budde has refused, telling Time magazine, "I hope that a message calling for dignity, respecting dignity, honesty, humility and kindness is resonating with people. I'm grateful for that. I'm saddened by the level of vitriol that it has evoked in others, and the intensity of it has been disheartening."