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Protest and Prayer: Resisting ICE in Minnesota with Rev. Mariah Tollgaard

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Good Faith

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Responding To The Minnesota Surge Leads To A Pastor's Arrest!

 

Curtis Chang sits down with Rev. Mariah Tollgaard for an on-the-ground look at ICE raids and immigration enforcement in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota. They break down masked agents, rapid detentions, and MSP Airport deportation flights—plus the church-led pushback through mutual aid, constitutional observer trainings, and clergy protests that led to Reverend Tollgaard's arrest. It's a faith-and-civil-rights wake-up call: what neighbor-love demands when ICE shows up in your city, and why accountability matters.

 

03:11 - Setting the Scene: ICE Occupation in Minnesota

08:19 - How Are Churches and the Community Responding? 

00:10:24 - Faith-Based Activism, Public Witness, and Arrests of Faith Leaders 

15:46 - Theological Reflection on Resistance

17:55 - Biblical Basis for Protest 

24:25 - Minnesota's Unique Response and Context 

29:52 - Corporate Complicity and Airport Protests 

34:02 - Spiritual Courage Rooted In History

36:36 - A Call to National Solidarity 

38:48 - Closing Prayer

 

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0:00.0

there certainly is an escalated level of fear. Contact your elected officials and speak out and say that

0:07.7

there needs to be limits on ice, that we need reform, that we need to have accountability for how

0:14.9

these agents are acting as well as for the death of Renee Good and Alex Preti, that we need to have investigations into these things,

0:23.4

because if it doesn't stop here in Minnesota,

0:26.3

it will just continue and it will come to your city.

0:50.6

Thank you. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast, where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.

0:52.7

I'm your host, Curtis Chang.

0:58.1

This podcast is produced by a nonpartisan 501C3 organization.

1:05.1

This episode is an important discussion about what is happening in Minnesota. Before we start,

1:12.5

I want to share what this episode illustrates about good faith in general. We seek to provide thoughtful and theologically grounded content explaining what is happening in the world. This means for this

1:18.8

podcast, we generally don't react instantly with episodes tied to the events of that week. We're not a

1:25.8

news agency. In the case of Minnesota, this meant,

1:29.9

I wanted to wait until a theologically rich conversation emerged that was worth sharing with all of you.

1:37.6

I feel so strongly about this particular episode because I believe we met that mark.

1:47.7

This episode also illustrates another aspect of our approach. When the conversation is strongly tied to local events, we seek to elevate the voices

1:54.8

of those on the ground, especially those who have put themselves on the line in the name of Christ.

2:01.6

Now, we love our guests with a national scope, people like our friends David French and Pete Wainer,

2:07.8

but we think it's vitally important that we also tell the stories of the local church

2:13.8

being faithful in this moment, and thus serving as a source of inspiration to all of us.

2:20.5

And I love this particular episode because it does just that.

2:25.2

I'm talking with Reverend Mariah Tolgarde, pastor of Hamline United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.

2:32.1

Maria has been a key leader in the Christian response to ICE.

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