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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 York, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

Sunday, January 19, at 10 am

Gandhi, King, and Nonviolence

Karuna Mantena, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, discusses Mahatma Gandhi's influence on the thinking of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the connection they both perceived between social change and nonviolence. Please post your questions in the comments section on Facebook or YouTube, or email the Reverend Zack Nyein at 


Upcoming

January 26
Parishioner Clay Williams on the emerging challenges posed by artificial intelligence

February 2  
Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music Professor Melanie Ross on the connection between liturgy and everyday life

February 9
Author and academic Isaac Sharp on the changing landscape of American evangelicalism

February 16
Nathaniel Gumbs, Director of Chapel Music at Yale University, on Black organ music

Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.

Featured

Stonewall after 50 Years - Jason Baumann
06.16.19 | Articles | The Forum

Love and Resistance—Stonewall After 50 YearsThe 2019 World Pride celebration in New York City marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the demonstrations in Greenwich Village that paved the way for more recent advances in...

Keep It Local - Elizabeth Yeampierre
05.19.19 | Articles | The Forum

Keep it Local: Addressing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Climate JusticeClimate change does not impact all communities equally; often it has a particularly devastating effect on those communities already experiencing disproportionate...

Earth as Sanctuary - Fletcher Harper
05.12.19 | Articles | The Forum

Earth as Sanctuary: An Interfaith Approach to Creation CareThe world’s major religious traditions, each in their own way, view the earth as sacred, and faithful people of all creeds see their efforts to protect Creation as holy work. The...

Artist Noah Buchanan
04.14.19 | Articles | The Forum

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...

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