Posted on 01/12/2026 4:39:08 AM PST by DFG
The Rt. Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, has issued a stark warning to the clergy in his diocese. He told them they need to get their affairs in order and prepare for the possibility of martyrdom while protesting ICE and its efforts to enforce immigration laws and stop illegal immigration, along with other acts of injustice.
Speaking to attendees at a candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good—the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent after she drove her vehicle toward him—Bishop Hirschfeld declared her a martyr for the cause and warned the Christians in the crowd that they might need to prepare themselves to do likewise.
I’m also coming to an awareness that the times of statements and the times of our eloquent words have reached a kind of limit, sadly. As someone who is a man of profound historical privilege, as one who has made statements that I have to say have been really good and eloquent, but have not moved the needle one bit, I want to speak briefly primarily to the Christians among us.
We are now engaged in a horrible battle that is eternal, that has gone on for millennia. As soon as the Christian church became linked to the empire by Constantine in the year 325 or so, the church immediately became corrupt. And the message of Jesus’s love, compassion, and commitment to the poor, the outcast, was immediately compromised.
And we have lost that voice, and we are now, I believe, entering a time, a new era of martyrdom. Renee Good being the last of note of those martyrs.
Hirschfeld lists several people who have died as marytyrs recently, including “New Hampshire’s Jonathan Daniels, a man of also white privilege, stood in front of the blast of a sheriff in Hayneville, Alabama to protect a young black teenager from a shotgun blast.”
I have told the clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire that we may be entering into that same witness. And I’ve asked them to get their affairs in order to make sure they have their wills written because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.
And it may mean that we are going to have to in a new way that we have never seen in our, perhaps in our lifetime, except for these remote stories that I’ve just cited, to put our faith in the God of life, of resurrection, of a love that is stronger than death itself.
He notes that Renee Good is in heaven with Jesus now:
If we truly want to live without fear, we cannot fear even death itself, my friends. And that is the stark truth of my faith. If I want to live and live with the fullness that God intends, I have to trust that God will always protect me and raise me as God, I believe, is bringing Renee Good to glory right now. And I see that face of that glory among all of us who are here on this cold, dark night
.Before concluding with a prayer:
You have been created wholly in the image of the divine. Whatever race, whatever gender, whatever orientation, straight, queer, trans, you have been made in the image of the divine. God has always and will always protect you no matter what happens. So live in that fear. God supports you, protects you, and loves you with a power and a presence that is stronger than death. That is how we live free or die. Amen.
Meshugge.
CC
Koolaid.
The Bishop is a fool.
has anyone introduced legislation to change ICE? was it voted on? i thought the way in a democracy to change the supposedly undesirable was to formulate legislation to govern it, not to running over public officials with 2-ton vehicles...
Whiskeypalian drama queen gotta drama.
“Renee Nicole Good—the woman fatally shot by an ICE agent after she drove her vehicle toward him”
Hilarious; an incomplete thought.
They can’t mention the truth of her striking the officer.
They can’t even positively spin this.
In reply, I should replace the ‘fatally shot’ statement with “pointed his gun at the vehicle and gently applied pressure to the trigger”.
They have a critical business and revenue source to protect:
The outright stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze.
That’s a good idea. Prepare to die for your insane cause. That’s called “winning” for those of us let behind.
Not martyrs.
Hell-bound traitors!!
In other words, his charity money is down.
Ever wonder why that organization wants illegal aliens???
Follow the money.
“Before concluding with a prayer:
You have been created wholly in the image of the divine.
Whatever race, whatever gender, whatever orientation, straight, queer, trans, you have been made in the image of the divine.
God has always and will always protect you no matter what happens.
So live in that fear.
God supports you, protects you, and loves you with a power and a presence that is stronger than death.
That is how we live free or die.
Amen.”
There is no Jesus in that prayer.
There is NO Gospel in that prayer.
Only Law.
They act like ICE is rounding up immigrants to execute them, not simply return them to their homes. Alas, it’s true that returning them to Somalia will turn off the tax payer spigot that was enriching them and funding terrorism, which is apparently a tragedy on par with the Holocaust, but I suppose if they are willing to die to protect that cash pipeline, ICE should be ready to shoot them. They’ll die happy, so...
Pure incitement to violence against law enforcement.
The Dims are now invoking a true insurrection.
he is ordering and directing them to DIE
without accountability.
he should lose his liberty and church.
How many illegal alien criminals are currently living in the bishop’s house? I bet the answer is none.
That kind of makes the bishop a hypocrite.
Get back to us, bishop, after hosting a few members of the Tren de Aragua gang in your house for about a year.
This man may call himself a Christian, but he is not a Christian, and neither are any who follow him.
It’s past time for the followers of Christ call out the Episcopal, PCUSA, ELCA, United Methodist, Metropolitan Community, and heretics among the Baptists and Catholics (that’s you, followers of Francis), and say that they are LIARS AND DECEIVERS when they defame Christ by taking His name for their Satanic deeds.
If they decline to gird something, it’s all fake.
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