In cooperation with Province I, we hosted an evening with Rosita Stevens-Holsey, neice of the late Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. If you were unable to make it, a recording is available here: https://vimeo.com/949955953?share=copy There are two book studies on offer if you are interested in taking a deeper dive: Emily Keniston plans to offer a two-part book study for young people (book ages recommended are 10-14): one on June 12th and the other on June 19th both from 7-8 PM on Zoom. The sign up form is here. Another youth minister (and high school English teacher!) has agreed to work jointly to share ..read more

A System of Too Much I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. —Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching  Father Richard names the tension created by gospel teachings on simplicity and cultural expectations of abundance:   Most of us have grown up with a capitalist worldview which makes a virtue and goal out of accumulation, consumption, and collecting. It has taught us to assume, quite falsely, that more is better. It’s hard for us to recognize this unsustainable and unhappy trap because it’s the only game in town. When parents perform multiple duties all day and i ..read more

Dear Friends,  As we approach July 1, the second anniversary of my full-time work as CFO of the diocese, I would like to thank all of you for your support, and for sharing your thoughtful ideas of how we can be of greatest service to you.  I would particularly like to thank Dennis Burton for making my transition to this new role as seamless as possible.  Many of you have commented on the work of the Commission on Finance, and its new narrative budget format that was approved at Convention in October for fiscal year 2024. Our objective is to build on that foundation to make our f ..read more

The state senate last night approved a new safe-storage bill that would require that all guns be stored in a locked container or secured with gun locks unless they are in an owner’s possession. “I am delighted to see the bill requiring safe gun storage pass the senate and am grateful for the work that we, as people of faith, have done to encourage our elected leaders to enact legislation that addresses specific vulnerable areas in preventing gun violence while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners,” said the Rev. Dr. Dena Cleaver-Bartholomew, canon to the ordinary, who joined other f ..read more

The 2023-2024 Diocesan Cycle of Prayer is available for congregations to use in their weekly intercessions. Each congregation is prayed for during the week which includes their Feast of Title. Morning Prayer is offered in the chapel at Diocesan House on Wednesdays and Fridays at 9:30 AM.  You are welcome to attend Morning Prayer — mindful that the office is closed on holidays and some days specific to the Diocesan House. The post Diocesan Cycle of Prayer 1 Advent 2023 – Last Pentecost 2024 appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

Risen Epiphany 2024 The post RISEN – Epiphany 2024 appeared first on Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island ..read more

My name is Jacki Zahn and I’m a parishioner at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Greenville. I wanted to give you a little information on Education for Ministry. I love learning new things, especially History. Because I never got the chance to go to college after high school, I went “later in life” and graduated from Rhode Island College at the age of 56 with a History Major. As a former Roman Catholic, I took an Inquirer’s class with my Episcopalian friend Betsy at Christ Church in Lincoln. I attended another one at Calvary Church when my husband and I were received into the Episcopal churc ..read more

Recently the Rev. Della Wager Wells, rector of Emmanuel, Newport, talked with Nancy Bryan of Canticle Communications about her fifteen years of ministry with the Compass Rose Society, an organization founded in 1997 that supports the programs and ministries of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), the organization that sets the goals and direction for the Communion.  The Rev. Della Wager Wells NB: I would love to hear a bit about your background and particularly about how you became involved in Compass Rose. How did you learn about the organization, how ..read more

Tea Time Theology, a podcast sponsored by the diocese, returns for its sixth season on February 20.  While its previous seasons have examined how we encounter theology in everyday life, pop culture, and even bumper stickers, upcoming episodes will present oral histories of three historically black churches in the diocese that have now closed: Church of the Savior, Christ Church, Eddy Street, and Church of the Epiphany, all in Providence, and a history of the The Cathedral of St. John.   The idea for the histories was generated when Tea Time host Ivy Swinski met with the Rev. Pat ..read more

Phil Graham and Carol Salvatore, City Meal Site volunteers, pass out grab-and-go meals and bottled water at Crossroads Rhode Island on Broad Street. How do your Tuesdays look? Got a little time in the afternoon? The City Meal Site (CMS) operating at All Saints’ Memorial Church in Providence has an invitation for you.  The volunteers who run the program are looking for help in continuing a tradition of feeding neighbors in need that began in the kitchen of a low-income apartment in the early 1980s.  “Anyone who spent a Tuesday afternoon — or any part thereof — helping us make and dist ..read more