Check out what’s happening this Sunday

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.

Sunday, May 11
Immigration, Girlhood, and The American Dream

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, reads from her new novel Catalina and reflects on what immigrants are experiencing in the present American moment.

 

Upcoming Speakers at The Forum


May 18   David Blankenhorn, co-founder of Braver Angels, on political polarization

May 25   The Reverend Canon Stephanie Spellers, Assisting Priest, on a non-religious generation and the future of faith

June 1   The Right Reverend Matthew F. Heyd, Bishop of New York on this moment of transition for St. Bart's

June 8   The Reverend Canon Leyla King, Canon for Mission in Small Congregations, Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, on war in Gaza 

June 15   Jon Key, author of Black, Queer & Untold, on art, sexuality, and race

June 22   Jacqueline Goldsby, Professor of African-American Studies and English at Yale University, and Charles Cuykendall Carter, Assistant Curator at New York Public Library, on James Baldwin

June 29   The Reverend Mihee Kim-Kort, co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, Maryland, on queerness and faith 

Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.

Grouped by: Center For Religious Inquiry

The Lunar New Year
02.05.23 | The Forum | Center for Religious Inquiry

As the celebration of the Lunar New Year comes to a close with the Lantern Festival, Ying Yen, Executive Director of the New York Chinese Cultural Center, provides background on the multi-week observance and its place within Chinese culture.