NEWS PROVIDED BY
Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast
Sept. 9, 2026
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2026 /Christian Newswire/ — Rev. Merrie Turner is available for radio talk shows, television news, commentary programs, and podcasts, about the severe epidemic of political and social conflict and fights harming our nation.
Rev. Turner declares:
“In President Trump’s home of South Florida, a billboard reminds us of the warning by Jesus Christ: ‘IF A HOUSE IS DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF, THAT HOUSE CANNOT STAND.’ Mark 3:25.
“Now the United States of America is badly torn by vicious and extreme conflict, continuing political assassinations, actual and attempted. It is no longer a question of preserving this nation but efforts to tear it down to establish secular socialism.”
Every four years, when the nation swears in a President, the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast brings together political and religious leaders from around the world. They commit the President’s term into God’s hands and ask for God’s blessing. See: https://PresidentialInauguralPrayer.org. Since its founding by Dr. Ruth Ward Heflin, the prayer breakfast trusts in God for His blessing and leadership, not any particular political party.
“Yet today, news is of a civil war within those who love the United States and its values,” leader Turner explains. “President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration address warned us of our need for unity.
‘With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.’”
Turner reminds us:
“In current times, a political leader Charlie Kirk was assassinated and maybe half the country actually celebrated. Multiple attempts are made on our President’s life. American politics have been rambunctious. But now violence for political gain is openly acceptable and embraced as normal or even desirable. Our current President is slandered with the most despicable lies. Fighting is now undertaken with relish and abandon.”
This “Fraying of America” has led Rev. Turner to feel compelled by circumstances to launch a write-in candidate for Mayor of the District of Columbia. See: https://MerrieTurner.com/. She urges Christians to “appeal to the Supreme Judge of the World” for deliverance from forces that would unravel this nation.
SOURCE Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast, Inc.
CONTACT: Merrie Turner, 540-581-5562, merriewturner@gmail.com