Sundays at 10 am in the Great Hall and online

Each week, guest speakers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines join the Reverend Peter Thompson and other St. Bart's clergy for deep and insightful conversations about topics that matter to our lives as responsible citizens and people of faith.

Sunday, June 15  Black, Queer, & Untold

Acclaimed designer and artist Jon Key, author of Black, Queer, & Untold, brings to light the lives and legacies of Black and Queer creatives from the 1800s to the present.

Sunday, June 22  Born Again Queer: Evangelical Gay Activism and the Making of Antigay Christianity

William Stell, Faculty Fellow at New York University and author of the upcoming book Born Again Queer, uncovers the hidden history of gay evangelicals and the opposition they faced within the evangelical movement.

Sunday, June 29  Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith

The Reverend Mihee Kim-Kort, co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, Maryland, on queerness and faith 

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Sundays, June 22 at 11 am

Music of Handel for Choir & Orchestra

Several Sundays throughout the year are designated A Choral Feast and celebrate a specific theme, composer, or a major choral work. This morning’s service features music from George Frederic Handel’s Chandos Anthem No. 9 “O Praise the Lord with one consent,” HWV 254. Composed in 1717-18, it is one of eleven such works written when Handel served as composer-in-residence for the future First Duke of Chandos.

They combine verses of the Psalms as they appear in the New Version of the Psalms of David (1696), a lively translation by Nahum Tate (1652-1715) and Nicholas Brady (1659-1726). (Tate also penned the carol “While Shepherds watched their flocks by night,” as well as the libretto to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.) The work is scored for choir, soloists, and orchestra of strings, oboes, and organ, performed with an ensemble of period instruments.

Additionally, the St. Bartholomew’s Choristers will sing an aria from Theodora, an oratorio first performed at Covent Garden in 1750, and telling the story of the fourth-century Christian martyr of that name. The Sanctus and Benedictus are an adaptation by Alexander Pattavina from an aria from Athaliah, and oratorio based on the Jean Racine play Athalie.

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Sunday, June 29

Free parking available at the Doubletree Hotel Garage (136 E. 51st Street). Voucher required. (Pick up a voucher from St. Bart's Central or one of our ushers.) Livestream available here, on Facebook and YouTube.

9 am Eucharist in the Round

10 am The Forum 

The Reverend Dr. Mihee Kim-Kort, Co-Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, MD and author of Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith.

11 am Choral Eucharist

A designated "Choral Feast" at St. Bart's, the 11am service of Holy Eucharist in the Church will include musical selections by LGBTQ+ composers presented by the St. Bartholomew's Choir. 

12:15 pm Annual Pride Barbecue on the Great Terrace

Join us for a festive lunch in celebration of Pride.

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1 pm NYC Pride March

All are welcome to march with St. Bart's and the Episcopal Diocese of New York in the NYC Pride Parade.  A group will leave from the Great Terrace at 1pm.