🌊 the 54 Episcopal communities of RI our Bishop: W. Nicholas Knisely ✝️
Providence, RI
Joined March 2009
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Happy to be a part of this meeting. Even happier about the plans we're discussing about what a coordinated response to technology and AI across the Communion might look like.
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🪶 Dear Rhode Island Church, Entry 10: “The Song of the Wren” | (as we prepare for the Feast of All Saints) The Rev. Duncan Burns of Block Island continues his ancestors’ story of gratitude and of seeking God from generation to generation.
🔗 more on dearrichurch.substack.com
📷: Tiny film crew on the balcony of a friendly Baptist church, in order to make a mini-doc about the vicar of an Episcopal church.
🪶 Dear Rhode Island Church, Entry 10: “The Song of the Wren” publishes tomorrow. (Substack + YouTube in the morning, everywhere else by evening.)
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Attending the Anglican Communion Science Commission and hearing Nobel Prize winner, William Phillips talk about his life as a person of faith and an "ordinary scientist".
(He's underselling his science credentials but still...)
Two weeks + two days until Diocesan Convention 2026!
📌 REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 3. Register:
episcopalri.org/diocesan-con…
Eucharist: 10/06, 7 PM at St. Barnabas’, Warwick
Convention: 10/07, 8:30 AM - 3 PM at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Warwick
(Reel from 2025’s convention.)
10/12: Find a Way brought representatives from several dioceses together for a Day of Reckoning + Remembrance at St. Augustine's in S. Kingstown. Thank you, John Brown of the Narragansett Tribe, Peaceful Walker and Rev. Ducan Burns.
findawaypilgrimage.com to learn more
To learn more about the Doctrine of Discovery and why the Episcopal Church voted to repudiate it, the Province 1 Indigenous Peoples' Justice network recommends this talk from Sarah Augustine: stpaulboston.org/tspc-librar…
A Prayer for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, with Rev. Duncan Burns, Mvskoke.
Rev. Duncan serves as priest-in-charge at St. Ann’s by-the-Sea on Block Island. Off-season events + services: stannsbytheseablockisland.co…
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Episcopal Church, New Shoreham, Rhode Island
Blessing of the Animals for the Feast of St. Francis at St. Francis’ Church in Coventry! 🐾
Yesterday, Bishop @wnknisely blessed a bearded lizard named Larry, and he and Fr. Sean blessed many other good pets, including photos of pets not present or who have passed on. 🦎💕
A Prayer for the Feast of St. Francis, with Fr. Sean Manchester and his dog, Mailee. 🐾
Fr. Sean serves as priest-in-charge at the Church of St. Francis in Coventry, Rhode Island, which worships together on Sundays at 10 AM. All are welcome!
A prayer emerges through an unplanned phone call between priest and poet Spencer Reece and his longtime spiritual director, Mary Jane Zapp.
Dear Rhode Island Church, Entry 9: “The Beginning of the Valuing of Every Single One of Us” 🏳️🌈
Short film: youtube.com/watch?v=2Vl7fSPs…
🌱 CONFERENCE INVITATION: “Common Ground: Finding Hope at the Intersection of Creation Care and Social Justice”
October 3rd, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at All Saints’ Memorial Church, Providence
Register to attend: onrealm.org/EpiscopalRI/Publ…
Dear Rhode Island Church, Entry 8 | On this 50th Anniversary of the Vote to Ordain Women, Canon Dena Cleaver-Bartholomew shares the story of her own ordination, following a sense of call she trusted since before the Episcopal Church said “yes.”
On the heels of the “AI, Faith, and Being Human” Mini-Conference at Christ Church, Westerly yesterday, here’s how we use (and mostly don’t use) AI in our films and social media communications. 🤖✨
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Rhode Island, Episcopal Church
On the 25th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, 11 of our churches are joining in a Memorial Ringing of the Bells, and some are open for prayer: councilofchurchesri.org/911-…
We remember, and we pray for comfort and peace. (Collect from the Episcopal Diocese of NY. ✝️)
10 of our Episcopal churches will be ringing their bells in remembrance tomorrow, and several are open for prayer.
Find a place to pray: councilofchurchesri.org/911-…
Rhode Island congregations! Creation Care grants are available from @iamepiscopalian, with an Oct. 20th deadline to apply:
episcopalchurch.org/grants/c…
The Rhode Island State Council of Churches has initiated a Memorial Ringing of the Bells for the 25th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks. These Episcopal churches are participating 🇺🇸 : facebook.com/share/p/1bgTFMd…
⭐️ Save the Date! ⭐️ Diocesan Convention is in Warwick this year.
Friday, Nov. 6th: Eucharist at St. Barnabas (7 PM)
Saturday, Nov. 7th: Business at the Crowne Plaza
📸s from last year’s convention at Park Theatre & Event Center in Cranston, Rhode Island.
