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.
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Ahead of the St. Bart’s trip to the Holy Land, seminarian Jennifer Allen presented a virtual tour using Ignatian Imagination. Take a walk on the Galilee with Peter and Jesus.
After completing the remarkable feat of reciting the entire Gospel of Mark from memory on Friday evening, actor Tom Bair talked with Bishop Dean Wolfe, the Rector of St. Bart’s, about his approach to telling the story of Jesus’ life...
Join Patrick Hornbeck, St. Bart’s parishioner and author most recently of Remembering Wolsey (Fordham, 2019; available for purchase at The Store @ St. Bart’s) for a tour through the “history of the history” of the...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, concludes his exploration of the liberating dimensions of Jesus’ ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God’s kingdom, action against the...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, explores the liberating dimensions of Jesus’ ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God’s kingdom, action against the temple, and radical...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, explores the liberating dimensions of Jesus’ ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God’s kingdom, action against the temple, and radical...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, explores the liberating dimensions of Jesus’ ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God’s kingdom, action against the temple, and radical...
Larry Welborn, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fordham University, explores the liberating dimensions of Jesus' ministry: healing, exorcism, proclamation of God's kingdom, action against the temple, and radical yes-saying to...
Our rector, Bishop Dean Wolfe, explores goals, visions and dreams for St. Bart’s in this new year.
