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.
The Reverend Dr. Ayla Lepine, Associate Rector of St. James's Piccadilly in London, explores the role of the star in the story of the Magi's visit to Bethlehem and how that star has been depicted in art.
As Bishop Sarah Mullally prepares to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the Reverend Canon Chuck Robertson, Ph.D., Canon & Senior Advisor to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, reflects on the role Archbishops of Canterbury have played within the Anglican tradition.
January 18: The Reverend Dr. Andrew Wilkes, Co-Lead Pastor, Double Love Experience Church
January 25: James L. Ferrara, M.D., Ward-Coleman Chair in Cancer Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
February 1: Edward Button, Countertenor, The King’s Singers
February 8: Annual Meeting of the Parish
February 15: Melanie Holcomb, Ph.D., Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Nancy Thebaut, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford
February 22: Michael Zuch, LCSW, Clinical Social Worker and Ph.D. student at Rutgers University School of Social Work
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
The Reverend Molly F. James, Ph. D., Interim Executive Officer of The General Convention of The Episcopal Church, speaks about the work of her office and shares data-based insights about the present and future of the Church.
“Economics for Social Justice Explained,” with Rick McGahey, Senior Vice President at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics at the New School, for their presentation
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.
