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. Speakers in recent years have included winners of the Tony Award, the Emmy Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the Pulitzer Prize, professors from prominent universities like Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, and journalists from New York, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.
Members of St. Bart’s celebrate the remarkable diversity of our beloved community as the pledge campaign concludes.
Members of St. Bart’s celebrate the remarkable diversity of our beloved community as the pledge campaign concludes.
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
Professionals from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center speak with the Reverend Molly O’Neil Frank, BCC, about the importance of palliative care in a culture that routinely shirks from the reality of death.
In the first part of our Easter Forum series “Easter People: Faith at Work,” Mary Kate Wold, President and CEO of the Church Pension Fund, she shares the results of her “listening events” throughout the Episcopal Church...
The Abrahamic Faiths Forum Series: An Exploration of Abraham and the Shared and Distinctive Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam For the last part of this series, Imam Faiyaz Jaffer joined us for an introduction to his local community...
The Abrahamic Faiths Forum Series: An Exploration of Abraham and the Shared and Distinctive Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Dr. Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, presented...
The Abrahamic Faiths Forum Series: An Exploration of Abraham and the Shared and Distinctive Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Who imposes guilt on us? Parents? The Church? Our longtime colleague Rabbi Leonard Schoolman led a lively...
Abrahamic Faiths Forum: An Exploration of Abraham and the Shared and Distinctive Traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Rev. Bob Dannals presented an introduction to the great Patriarch and Matriarch of the Hebrew tradition...
A special Forum series on the so-called “cardinal virtues” and how to pursue them in everyday life. Today: Fortitude and Hope, with the Rev. Lynn C. Sanders.
A special Forum series on the so-called “cardinal virtues” and how to pursue them in everyday life. Today: Justice, with the Rev. Matthew Moretz.
A special Forum series on the so-called “cardinal virtues” and how to pursue them in everyday life. Today: Reconciliation, with The Rev. John Wirenius.
A special Forum series on the so-called “cardinal virtues” and how to pursue them in everyday life. Today: Temperance with The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Th.D.
Living the Virtues: A special Forum series on the so-called “cardinal virtues” and how to pursue them in everyday life. Today: Bob Dannals on the virtues of courage and perseverance. Forum handout
