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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, December 3: The Spectacular

Author Fiona Davis delves into the history of the Radio City Rockettes and their famous Christmas Spectacular, now in its ninetieth year, as she introduces her novel The Spectacular.

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Upcoming Forums


December 10: With Sighs Too Deep for Words: Grace and Depression

The Right Reverend A. Robert Hirschfeld, Bishop of New Hampshire, reflects on the current mental health crisis and how the Christian faith can provide support to those who are struggling.

December 17: The Sermon That Hit the Church Like a Thunderclap: Leighton Parks’s 1923 Observations on the Virgin Birth Doctrine

Percy Preston, Jr., Archivist and Honorary Warden of St. Bart's, marks the centenary of a momentous and highly controversial sermon that was featured on the front page of The New York Times.


Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.

Episcopal Charities Sunday
08.21.22 | Articles | The Forum

Patrick Bergquist, Chief Program Officer of Episcopal Charities and former staff member of St. Bart’s, returns to talk with The Reverend Zack Nyein about the ways in which the Episcopal Diocese of New York is currently supporting those in...

New Approaches to Autism and Neurodiversity
07.17.22 | Articles | The Forum

Hospital chaplain Zachary Fletcher shares new and liberative ways of understanding autism and neurodiversity, including through the lens of Christian spirituality. Please post your questions for our speaker in the comments section...

Out & Proud: Jane Lynch on LGBTQ+ Pride
06.26.22 | Articles | The Forum

Beloved actress Jane Lynch, currently starring in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl, visits St. Bart’s to reflect on her life as an openly lesbian public figure and share stories from her long and acclaimed career. 

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