New Hampshire bishop warns clergy to prepare for 'new era of martyrdom'

[Playingmantis]

CONCORD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop is attracting national attention after warning his clergy to finalize their wills and get their affairs in order to prepare for a “new era of martyrdom.”

Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire made his comments earlier this month at a vigil honoring Renee Good, who was fatally shot on Jan. 7 behind the wheel of her vehicle by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Other religious leaders have also called on Christians to protect the vulnerable amid the uptick in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, including Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

“We keep resisting, advocating, bearing witness and repairing the breach,” Rowe said during a prayer earlier this week. “We keep sheltering and caring for those among us who are immigrants and refugees because they are beloved by God, and without them, we cannot fully be the church.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/new-hampshire-bishop-warns-clergy-prepare-new-era-129330353

I wonder what the Evangelicals will say about this?

[Vogon_Glory]

1. The Right-Wing Evangelicals Will Use One Of Their Favorite Positions

“Them thar Episcopalians weren’t really Christians anyway.” It’s a meme they trotted out during the Civil Rights era in the early and middle 1960’s, and I don’t doubt that they’ll dust it off and trot it out yet again.

[MuirHero]

2. Fuck those RW Evangelical hypocrites.

For the record, I am Lutheran (ELCA) and most of us despise Trump and MAGA.

[peggysue2]

4. They've said the same thing about Catholics for many decades

Despite the well-deserved criticism focused on the Catholic Church to claim Catholics are not real Christians is beyond absurd. The Catholic Church is the Mother Church from which all other Christian denominations evolved.

Current Evangelicals have rewritten and/or ignored the teachings of Jesus; the teachings, as in the Sermon on the Mount, are too woke.

Moronic.

[LiberalArkie]

3. Fellow Episcopalian. Agnostic, but still Episcopalian