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.
In accordance with the Church’s Bylaws, the Vestry has set the time and place for the annual parish meeting and election of Vestry officers. These will take place, on Sunday, February 8, 2026, at 10 am in the nave of the church and online. Click for more information. The Forum will return on Sunday. February 15.
February 15: Melanie Holcomb, Ph.D., Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Nancy Thebaut, Ph.D., Associate Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford
February 22: Michael Zuch, LCSW, Clinical Social Worker and Ph.D. student at Rutgers University School of Social Work
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
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.
Our Advent Forum series concludes with guided prayer, reflection, and small group time. St. Bart's clergy led us in exploring how our Advent Sunday readings offer a path to live the way of love as individuals, as families and friends, as a...
Our Advent Forum series continues with guided prayer, reflection, and small group time. St. Bart's clergy lead us in exploring how our Advent Sunday readings offer a path to live the way of love as individuals, as families and friends, as a...
Journeying the Way of LoveSt. Bart’s clergy offers a 4-week Advent series of guided prayer, reflection, and small group time. Together we explore how our Advent Sunday readings offer a path to live the way of love as individuals, as...
We were delighted to welcome as our special Forum guest the Reverend Buddy Stallings, Twelfth Rector of St. Bartholomew's Church, who retired in May, 2015. Buddy, in his inimitable way, shared his thoughts on post-retirement life, and life...
“The Church and the Ballot Box,” Part 3 of 3: What (Just) Happened?In this final session, we considered the results of the midterm elections in light of what we will have learned. Led by Dr. Patrick Hornbeck, St. Bart’s...
