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.
Beloved actress Jane Lynch, currently starring in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl, visits St. Bart’s to reflect on her life as an openly lesbian public figure and share stories from her long and acclaimed career.
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Our Nation of Immigrants: Celebrating an Inclusive United States
As we celebrate our country on this Independence Day weekend, Stephen Lean, Director of The American Family Immigration History Center on Ellis Island, discusses the ways in which immigration has enhanced the nation’s life.
The Abortion Converts: Journeys out of the Right-Wing
New York magazine senior writer Sarah Jones chronicles the transition some conservative Christians make from pro-life to pro-choice. Jones has recently authored several relevant articles about moral approaches to abortion (1, 2, 3).
New Approaches to Autism and Neurodiversity
Zachary Fletcher, chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital, shares new and liberative ways of understanding autism and neurodiversity, including through the lens of Christian spirituality.
Tuesday, June 14 | 7:30 p.m. on the Website, Youtube, and Facebook Live Dr. Catherine Meeks, Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing and the Reverend Canon Stephanie Spellers discuss the meaning of Juneteenth...
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
The Parish Annual Meeting of St. Bartholomew’s Church in the City of New-York was held on Sunday, February 7, 2016.The meeting included reports by the wardens, an update from the Rector Search Committee, and election of members of the...
