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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 YorkThe New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

Series: Sunday, October 13, 20, 27

What Healing Looks Like: Conversations on Suffering, Death, and Medical Care

Sunday, October 13, at 10 am

Ethics at the End of Life

Liz Blackler, MBE, LCSW, Program Manager for the Ethics Committee at Memorial Sloan Kettering, looks at the ethical issues that can arise at the end of a human life.


Upcoming Sundays

Sunday, October 13, 20, 27

What Healing Looks Like: Conversations on Suffering, Death, and Medical Care

October 20: Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?

Robert Klitzman, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the role that spirituality can play in medical care. 

October 27: The Making of a Hospital Chaplain

Rabbi Mychal Springer, ACPE, BCC, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at NY-Presbyterian Hospital, explains how hospital chaplains are educated and trained. 

Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.

An Epidemic of Loneliness
07.21.24 | Articles | The Forum

The Right Reverend Dean Wolfe and The Reverend Meredith Ward discuss the Surgeon General’s report on the epidemic of loneliness in our nation and what steps we can take to build more connection.

Saving What Can Be Saved
06.23.24 | Articles | The Forum

The Atlantic Senior Editor Vann R. Newkirk II discusses the importance of Black History today, why memory is one of the most important parts of imagining the future, and the role of the journalist when media is in crisis.

When is War Just?
05.26.24 | Articles | The Forum

As wars rage on in Ukraine, in the Middle East, and throughout the world, Walter Dorn, Professor of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College and the Royal Military College in Toronto, offers some Memorial Day reflections on the ethics of war.

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