Every Sunday at 10 am

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.

Sunday, October 4, 2026
Flood

Filmmaker Katy Scoggin tells a very personal story about dialogue across difference ahead of a screening of her new documentary.

Upcoming at The Forum

Sunday, October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer: The Religious Life of the First Lady of the World

Author Donn Mitchell examines the ways in which Eleanor Roosevelt’s faith informed her work and her life.

Sunday, October 18 — Lincoln in the Bardo
Composer Missy Mazzoli previews her new opera based on George Saunders’ novel, the first opera by a female composer to receive its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.

Sunday, October 25 — From Kanuga to Federal Plaza: A Year of Reporting on the Life and Witness of the Episcopal Church

Caleb Maglaya Galaraga, St. Bart's parishioner and a reporter for The Living Church, shares his unique perspective as a journalist who covers The Episcopal Church.

Sunday, November  — 1 Paul, Democracy, and the Corinthians
Larry Welborn, Professor Emeritus at Fordham University, highlights democratic impulses within the early Church and the New Testament.

Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.