“Put your affairs in order” — Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire

Verified via multiple sources, KJG

Rob Hirschfield, the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, has asked his clergy “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.”

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