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What else can I do to give back?
At 68 years of age, Rhode Islander Peter Bak found himself wondering what would come next. Retired after a successful career in business, he had spent three years making visits to nursing homes, hospitals, hospices, scout troops and more with Lucy, the first therapy-certified pit bull in the state. Still, Bak found himself looking for […]
Winter Shelter
The Diocese of Rhode Island is joining an interfaith effort, coordinated by the state’s Department of Housing, to significantly increase the number of beds available to people living without shelter this winter. Bishop Nicholas Knisely attended a press conference last Friday at which Governor Dan McKee and Secretary of Housing Stefan Pryor outlined efforts to […]
Episcopal Church Creation Care Supports Climate Resistance on Aquidneck Island
by Nancy Bryan Six congregations in Portsmouth, Middletown and Newport will partner with the diocese’s creation care ministry in a climate resistance pilot project that has won $18,000 in grant funding from The Episcopal Church’s Task Force on the Care of Creation and Environmental Racism. “One of the central focuses of our work will be […]
Rhode Islanders Attend Episcopal Youth Event
From July 4-8, seven youth from the Diocese of Rhode Island attended the Episcopal Youth Event in Baltimore, Maryland. This event, usually held every three years, is a gathering of youth ages 15-19 from around the world who assemble to learn, laugh, and worship together. The Rev. Scott Lee and his wife, Ashley, served as […]
Books Through Bars Finds a Home at St. Barnabas, Warwick
Books Through Bars Finds a Home at St. Barnabas Warwick Late in 2021, Providence Books Through Bars, an all-volunteer organization that sends books to people in prison all over the country, knew they needed a different space from which to work. For almost a decade, the group had been working out of a volunteer’s garage. […]
Creation Care – Summer 2023
Meet Reverend Dante A. Tavolaro, Rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Greenville, RI. Dante joined St. Thomas Church in June 2020, just as COVID became a factor in all of our lives. Nevertheless, as a “first time” Rector, he has found his role in this great parish to be fun, sometimes challenging, and often […]
How Aging Congregations Thrive
The last time Bishop Nicholas Knisely visited St. Andrew’s, Little Compton, a member of the congregation asked what the parish had to do to attract families with children. The Rev. Virginia Army, the parish’s rector, remembers his response well. “He spoke with warmth, but candor,” she recalls, explaining that rising housing prices and the attractiveness […]
Diversity is the way to Unity
This past weekend we celebrated Trinity Sunday. It’s the only Sunday festival of the Church that celebrates a doctrine rather than a historical event, and that tells me that the Episcopal Church considers something about the Trinity to be especially important. And what about it is so important? It’s certainly not the specifics of how […]
Partnering with RIPTA
For the third summer, the Diocese of Rhode Island is partnering with the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and the Discover Newport tourism board to fund free electric bus service to the city’s beaches and tourist destinations. Speaking at a celebratory press conference on May 27, Bishop Nicholas Knisely said that the diocese’s support of […]
Adapting Creatively at Emmanuel Cumberland
Emmanuel Church in Cumberland is a youthful congregation by Episcopal standards with an average age of 44, almost 15 years below the churchwide average. Its members’ lives “are so full of upheaval with so few sacred cows, it can be easier to shift directions,” says the Rev. Joan Testin, the church’s rector of 10 years. […]