Frank Collerius and Crystal Chen, co-hosts of the New York Public Library’s podcast The Librarian Is In, offer summer reading recommendations and address questions about reading, libraries, and books.
Perspectives from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: TWO FATHERS SPEAK OUT
Rami Ehlhanan, who lost a daughter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, shares his story and reflects on the importance of dialogue, reconciliation, and peace. Rami is a member of The Parents Circle-Families Forum, a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization composed of over 600 families who have lost a member in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Our newest clergyperson, the Reverend Meredith Ward, Interim Associate Rector, explores the story of Mary Magdalene through art and scripture and examines how early interpretations of her have shaped our current understanding of this first witness to the Resurrection.
An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional
Writer Rainesford Stauffer reflects on the experience of young adults in contemporary society. How can they find satisfaction in the ordinary when they are constantly pressured to strive for something more?
Twelfth Sunday in Pentecost (August 15)
Sacred Music in the Twentieth Century
Despite the perceived secularization of society during the twentieth century, it was actually an age of extraordinary revival for religiously based music. The New Yorker’s music critic Alex Ross shares thoughts on some favorite sacred works from the period.
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
Frank Collerius and Crystal Chen, co-hosts of the New York Public Library’s podcast The Librarian Is In, offer summer reading recommendations and address questions about reading, libraries, and books.
The Forum: Leading with Empathy: Living Together Well During Shelter-in-PlaceJulie Ross, Executive Director of Parenting Horizons, discusses how parents, children, and others who share the same space can navigate the constraints of the COVID-19...
As the COVID-19 crisis continues, The Reverend Curtis Hart, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Religion and Health, draws on his years of experience as Director of Pastoral Care at New York Presbyterian hospital and as a lecturer at Weill Cornell...
Yale professor Teresa Berger, already a leading expert on virtual worship before COVID-19, talks with the Reverend Peter Thompson about how technology and circumstance are together changing the ways in which we gather and pray. Teresa's latest...
A New Normal: Being the Church in the Present MomentThe Right Reverend Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Bishop of New York, shares his thoughts on how the Church is responding to the global pandemic of COVID-19 and how it will change forever as a...
"Social Justice and COVID-19: Caring for All in a Time of Pandemic," with the Reverend Susan Anderson-Smith
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Finding God’s Hope in the Midst of Fear, Loss, and COVID-19, with Jan Holton, Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and Care, Duke University. Click the filmstrip image to view the recorded Forum.
“Anxiety and Isolation in the Age of COVID-19: What can we do?” Mary Ragan, PhD, LCSW, Executive Director of the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute, discusses how to navigate daily life in this strange, new time in which we find...
Matters of Life and Death: Religion, Politics and the Contentious Moral Debates of Our TimeAt the intersection of religion and politics, few topics are as contentious as those that bookend a life—from abortion and stem cells to the death...
Christianity, the Color Line, and Contemporary AmericaAmerican Christians are as cognizant as ever of the pervasiveness of racial injustice, yet racial divisions persist, both within and outside of the Church. How do race, religion and politics...
