The Forum

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.

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Sunday, October 8: Histories, Fun Facts, Regular Facts

Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post will speak on her new book satirizing American history, US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up). 

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Upcoming Forums

October 15: Sacred Muse: On Christian Art and Music

Charles Scribner III, author, art historian, and longtime member of the St. Bart’s community ponders the many ways in which art and music can lead us to the sacred. 

October 22: Deliberative Citizenship: Constructively Facing Society’s Problems

Graham Bullock, Associate Professor of Political Science, Davidson College proposes a more constructive approach to dialogue about important social and political issues.

October 29: The Reverend Molly O’Neil Frank will speak on death and dying from her perspective as a hospice chaplain at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

November 5: Thirty Years of Ministry

The Right Reverend Dean Wolfe and his wife Ellen reflect on his thirty years of service as a priest and bishop. 

November 12: Back at St. Bart’s

The Reverend Peter Thompson discusses his three month sabbatical and his return to St. Bart’s.