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, December 28, 2025
Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New: Conversation with Clergy
The Forum will not meet on Sunday, December 28. Instead, please join Peter and Meredith for an informal conversation about the year that is past and the year that is coming. An in-person only conversation will be held at 10 am in the Great Hall and then a Zoom conversation will be held at 1 pm. Registration for the Zoom conversation is available at stbarts.org/conversation.
Upcoming Speakers at The Forum
January 4: The Reverend Dr. Ayla Lepine, Associate Rector, St. James’s Piccadilly
January 11: The Reverend Dr. Chuck Robertson, Canon & Senior Advisor to the Presiding Bishop
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.
Featured
12.21.25 | Articles | The Forum |
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.
Let All Who Are Thirsty Come: Water Access as Religious ImperativeWater is one of the basic necessities of life, yet, as agricultural development progresses and climate change continues to spiral out of control, fresh, clean water has become...
To kick off our Resurrecting Earth series, 13-year-old climate justice activist and organizer Alexandria Villaseñor and Peter DeMenocal, Dean of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University and founding Director of the...

Artist Noah Buchanan shares with us the creative process that resulted in his Crucifixion painting, currently on display in the North Transept Chapel, and contemplates how art can help us better understand and appreciate the love Jesus...
Meet our newest clergyperson, the Reverend Peter Thompson, Associate Rector for Formation and Liturgy. Bishop Dean Wolfe, Rector of St. Bart’s, talked with Peter about his call to ministry, his experience as a young priest in the Church...
After completing the remarkable feat of reciting the entire Gospel of Mark from memory on Friday evening, actor Tom Bair talked with Bishop Dean Wolfe, the Rector of St. Bart’s, about his approach to telling the story of Jesus’ life...
Join Patrick Hornbeck, St. Bart’s parishioner and author most recently of Remembering Wolsey (Fordham, 2019; available for purchase at The Store @ St. Bart’s) for a tour through the “history of the history” of the...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, concludes his exploration of the liberating dimensions of Jesus’ ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God’s kingdom, action against the...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, explores the liberating dimensions of Jesus’ ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God’s kingdom, action against the temple, and radical...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, explores the liberating dimensions of Jesus’ ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God’s kingdom, action against the temple, and radical...