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The Forum

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.

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Sunday, October 8: Histories, Fun Facts, Regular Facts

Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post will speak on her new book satirizing American history, US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up). 

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Upcoming Forums


October 15:
Sacred Muse: On Christian Art and Music

Charles Scribner III, author, art historian, and longtime member of the St. Bart’s community ponders the many ways in which art and music can lead us to the sacred. 

October 22: Deliberative Citizenship: Constructively Facing Society’s Problems

Graham Bullock, Associate Professor of Political Science, Davidson College proposes a more constructive approach to dialogue about important social and political issues.

October 29: The Reverend Molly O’Neil Frank will speak on death and dying from her perspective as a hospice chaplain at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

November 5: Thirty Years of Ministry

The Right Reverend Dean Wolfe and his wife Ellen reflect on his thirty years of service as a priest and bishop. 

November 12: Back at St. Bart’s

The Reverend Peter Thompson discusses his three month sabbatical and his return to St. Bart’s.


Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.

Addressing Economic Inequality
11.23.14 | Articles | The Forum

How do people of faith engage the difficult questions of wealth and income inequality? What are the roles of charity,  and policies regarding labor, welfare, and taxes? Building on a previous forum on inequality Economists Teresa Ghilarducci...

Mary Sudman Donovan: Women in Church
11.09.14 | Articles | The Forum

Dr. Mary Sudman Donovan, historian, author, educator and pioneer of women’s history in the Episcopal Church was our Forum guest. At this 40th-year anniversary of women’s ordination in the Episcopal Church, Dr. Donovan discussed how...

Actor Phil Darius Wallace
11.02.14 | Articles | The Forum

Actor Phil Darius Wallace was Buddy’s guest. Opening in a new American play this month entitled Self Made Man: The Frederick Douglass Story, Darius has performed across the country starring as Martin Luther King, Richard Wright, and...

Frances Hesselbein
10.26.14 | Articles | The Forum

Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, was Buddy’s guest. Frances, a relatively new member of St. Bart’s, served for many years as the CEO for Girl Scouts of America and is recognized as...

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