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.
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On the eve of the election of the next Bishop of New York, our Rector, Bishop Dean Wolfe, talks about why we have bishops and what they do.
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Amy-Jill Levine, prolific author and the Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, places Jesus and Paul within their Jewish context and reflects on how the Jewishness of the Jesus movement is so often overlooked.
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
David Silverman, Professor of History at George Washington University and author of This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth County, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving, offers a true history of the holiday we celebrate...
THE REAL WOLF HALL: Seen “Wolf Hall” on Broadway and/or the recent PBS series? Read Hilary Mantel’s novels? The story of life and times of Thomas Cromwell in Tudor England has garnered much attention . . . but is it true? St...
Patrick Bergquist, St. Bart’s new Interim Director of Children, Youth and Family Ministries, hosted a thought-provoking discussion on the changing spiritual dynamics of children and youth in today’s culture. He also offered a sneak...
Today's Forum: Juneteenth, an American holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. The Rev. Edward Sunderland and Crossroads Community volunteers and friends hosted the celebration.
Today's Forum with Interim Rector the Rev. Dr. Robert S. Dannals was not recorded, but we are happy to share his Forum handout “The Top 10 Reasons I Love the Episcopal Church”
