Come Labor On: Reflections on Labor Day On Labor Day weekend, the Reverend Richard Witt, Executive Director of Rural Migrant Ministry, reflects on the experience and needs of farmworkers in New York State and the importance of advocating for all...
Author Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright draws on her latest book Dignity: Seven Strategies for Creating Authentic Community to explore how our institutions, in the words of our Baptismal Covenant, can better “respect the dignity of every human...
The renowned English poet-priest Malcolm Guite reads poems from his latest collection, David’s Crown: Sounding the Psalms, and offers a meditation on how the Good News of Jesus can be found in King David’s songs.
Despite the perceived secularization of society during the twentieth century, it was actually an age of extraordinary revival for religiously based music. The New Yorker’s music critic Alex Ross shares thoughts on some favorite sacred works...
Writer Rainesford Stauffer reflects on the experience of young adults in contemporary society. How can they find satisfaction in the ordinary when they are constantly pressured to strive for something more?
Frank Collerius and Crystal Chen, co-hosts of the New York Public Library’s podcast The Librarian Is In, offer summer reading recommendations and address questions about reading, libraries, and books.
Rami Ehlhanan, who lost a daughter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, shares his story and reflects on the importance of dialogue, reconciliation, and peace. Rami is a member of The Parents Circle-Families Forum, a joint Israeli-Palestinian...
Our newest clergyperson, the Reverend Meredith Ward, Interim Associate Rector, explores the story of Mary Magdalene through art and scripture and examines how early interpretations of her have shaped our current understanding of this first...
The Very Reverend Nathan LeRud and the Very Reverend Peter Elliott, cathedral deans and hosts of the podcast The Gospel of Musical Theatre, preview the upcoming Broadway season, focusing particularly on revivals of West Side Story, The Music Man...
This is a replay of a popular installment of The Forum from July 5, 2020. David Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and...
