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.
The Reverend Peter Thompson fact checks quotations purported to derive from famous Christian figures, including St. Francis of Assisi, St. Teresa of Avila, Martin Luther, and John Wesley. Please post your questions in the comments section on Facebook or YouTube, or email the Reverend Peter Thompson at
Author Nikkya Hargrove discusses her memoir about her unconventional journey to motherhood.
Attorney Jeffrey Grant, founder of White Collar Support Group, explains how expunging criminal records can benefit those who have already served their sentences and the society-at-large.
Watch or listen to The Forum from previous weeks below.
May 26—The Global Effects of Climate Change: A Perspective from Honduras Marcia Biggs, Special Correspondent, PBS NewsHour In Honduras, warmer temperatures and reduced rainfall are already drastically altering the agricultural landscape...
Keep it Local: Addressing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Climate JusticeClimate change does not impact all communities equally; often it has a particularly devastating effect on those communities already experiencing disproportionate...
Earth as Sanctuary: An Interfaith Approach to Creation CareThe world’s major religious traditions, each in their own way, view the earth as sacred, and faithful people of all creeds see their efforts to protect Creation as holy work. The...
Let All Who Are Thirsty Come: Water Access as Religious ImperativeWater is one of the basic necessities of life, yet, as agricultural development progresses and climate change continues to spiral out of control, fresh, clean water has become...
To kick off our Resurrecting Earth series, 13-year-old climate justice activist and organizer Alexandria Villaseñor and Peter DeMenocal, Dean of Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University and founding Director of the...
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Artist Noah Buchanan shares with us the creative process that resulted in his Crucifixion painting, currently on display in the North Transept Chapel, and contemplates how art can help us better understand and appreciate the love Jesus...
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Meet our newest clergyperson, the Reverend Peter Thompson, Associate Rector for Formation and Liturgy. Bishop Dean Wolfe, Rector of St. Bart’s, talked with Peter about his call to ministry, his experience as a young priest in the Church...
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