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.
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace
Stephen G. Post, Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, melds science and spirituality in a meditation on how practicing love can lead to peace.
Upcoming Speakers at The Forum
November 16 The Future of Foreign Aid and the Role of Episcopal Relief & Development
Dr. Robert W. Radtke, President & CEO of Episcopal Relief & Development, discusses recent changes to foreign aid and how his organization is responding.
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
The following individuals were fully welcomed into the life of St. Bart's during Welcome Sunday on February 12, 2023. We invite you to send them messages of congratulations.
Ackeem Duggan
I am 31 years old and I am from Jamaica, West Indies. My...