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.
The Reverend Dr. Mihee Kim-Kort, co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, Maryland and author of Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness will Transform Your Faith, reflects on how practices of reading and listening might open us up to God’s presence and help us show up in courageous ways. Please post your questions in the comments section on Facebook or YouTube, or email the Reverend Peter Thompson at
The Forum is on hiatus for Independence Day weekend. In its place, join the clergy of St. Bart's for an in person conversation about what it means to love our country in times like these. A virtual version of the conversation will be held on Zoom after the 11 am service. If you can't join us in person, please register for the Zoom call below.
Ethnomusicologist and St. Bart's parishioner Margaret Farrell reflects on how music can lift spirits in difficult times.
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
William Stell, Faculty Fellow at New York University and author of the upcoming book Born Again Queer, uncovers the hidden history of gay evangelicals and the opposition they faced within the evangelical movement.
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...
Ahead of the St. Bart’s trip to the Holy Land, seminarian Jennifer Allen presented a virtual tour using Ignatian Imagination. Take a walk on the Galilee with Peter and Jesus.
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...
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 yes-saying to...
Our rector, Bishop Dean Wolfe, explores goals, visions and dreams for St. Bart’s in this new year.
