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.
Dr. Clay Williams, a St. Bart’s parishioner who completed his dissertation on artificial intelligence, contemplates the impact that AI is making on our efforts to understand ourselves.
The Reverend Dr. Ayla Lepine, Associate Rector of St. James’s Piccadilly, introduces her new book which lies at the intersection of feminism, art, and theology.
September 27 Christian Nationalism in the UK
The Reverend Lucy Winkett, Rector of St. James’s Piccadilly, looks at Christian nationalism within the United Kingdom, contending that it represents both a political problem and a theological one.
October 4 Flood
Filmmaker Katy Scoggin tells a very personal story about dialogue across difference ahead of a screening of her new documentary.
October 11 Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer: The Religious Life of the First Lady of the World
Author Donn Mitchell examines the ways in which Eleanor Roosevelt’s faith informed her work and her life.
October 25 Caleb Maglaya Galaraga, journalist, The Living Church
November 1 Paul, Democracy, and the Corinthians
Larry Welborn, Professor Emeritus at Fordham University, highlights democratic impulses within the early Church and the New Testament.
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
Akash Mehta, Editor-in-Chief of journalism start-up New York Focus, reflects on the fight for criminal justice reform, the implementation of a new climate law, and other issues facing our city and our state.
How did Jesus and the earliest Christians approach issues of economic justice? Miguel Escobar, Executive Director of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary, provides an overview based on his new book.
At this key moment in the life of The Episcopal Church, St. Bart’s parishioner Mary Kate Wold, CEO & President of the Church Pension Group, shares basic facts about our denomination and the clergy who serve it.
The clergy of St. James’s Piccadilly, London reflect on their experiences of ministering to an urban metropolis.
Dr. James Cone, the Medical Director of the World Trade Center Health Registry, shares insights from his work investigating the connections between 9/11 and physical and mental health.
Yomaira Franqui of Local 338 discusses the efforts she is leading to organize and advocate for the rights of farmworkers in New York and New Jersey.
Leaders from the Anglican Church in Ukraine and the Anglican Church in Poland join The Reverend Peter Thompson and The Reverend Zack Nyein virtually to discuss the ways in which they are responding to the ongoing war.
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...
Wellville: The Long-Term Quest to Achieve Sustainable Equity and Wellbeing Philanthropist and investor Esther Dyson, reflects on her work as founder/volunteer for Wellville, a 10-year, non-profit project that is helping five small US...
The Reverned Natosha Reid Rice joins in conversation about how we can foster prophetic imagination amidst a city that never sleeps. An ordained minister and lawyer who currently serves as Minister for Public Life at All Saints' Atlanta; and...
