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Entry 4: Dear LGTBQ+ Community
The following short film (2 minutes + 46 seconds) is unscripted and features the Rt. Rev. W. Nicholas Knisely and volunteers from among Diocesan staff and from churches throughout Rhode Island. To the entire LGTBQ+ Community, and especially the LGTBQ+ Community in Rhode Island: Happy Pride!
Entry 3: Episcopal Priest Barbie
This is the origin story of “Episcopal Priest Barbie,” as told by The Rev. Canon Dr. Dena Cleaver-Bartholomew, Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. The concept, sacristy, accessories, and clothing for this “High Church Edition” doll were created by The Rev. Julie Blake Fisher, who currently serves as the rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church…
A Meditation for the Earth
Today is Earth Day. Exactly two weeks ago, in the middle of Holy Week, Holy Trinity Church in Tiverton hosted an Earth Tenebrae for the Endangered & Extinct. READ MORE From our Dear Rhode Island Church series
Welcome from Bishop Knisely
The Diocese of Rhode Island is a gathering of more than 50 congregations across the state whose members have been called together by God to care for our neighbors, to care for one another, and to spread the good news of the Gospel.
Our congregations vary in size. Some worship in a highly formal style, while others are more relaxed. And our setting range from beautiful historic buildings to a field near a bus stop. Regardless of our circumstances, we find our community in common prayer and mutual respect.
I invite you to learn more about our churches, and I hope you will join us.
The Episcopal Church Welcomes You, whoever you may be.
From the Bishop’s Blog
- Thanks so much to all the folks who were part of this unscripted video. It’s an important message for our neighbors in Rhode Island. Please share?
- The encyclical released this week is being characterized primarily as a Critique of AI. But to be frank it’s not so much of AI as of the economics, and particularly the disparity between wealth and poverty that is behind AI’s rise. And also of the exploitation of people, the environment and the spiritual realm that […]
- The Tower of Babel at its core is a critique of human desire that is separate from God’s action. When nations work their human designs, they are destined to fail. The Day of Pentecost is the recasting of that story.
- The Ascension, properly understood, says something startling about your body. About your memory. About the specific and particular history that has made you who you are at this moment.
- The self-giving, self-emptying love that we celebrate this weekend of Mother's Day changes everything. And if we have eyes to see it, it is still all around us.
