Sundays at 10 am in the Great Hall and online

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.

MAY 11  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans, on the immigrant experience

MAY 18  David Blankenhorn, co-founder of Braver Angels, on political polarization

MAY 25  The Reverend Canon Stephanie Spellers, Assisting Priest, on a non-religious generation and the future of faith

JUNE 1 The Right Reverend Matthew F. Heyd, Bishop of New York on this moment of transition for St. Bart's

JUNE 8 The Reverend Canon Leyla King, Canon for Mission in Small Congregations, Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, on war in Gaza
 
JUNE 15 Jon Key, author of Black, Queer & Untold, on art, sexuality, and race

JUNE 22 Jacqueline Goldsby, Professor of African-American Studies and English at Yale University, and Charles Cuykendall Carter, Assistant Curator at New York Public Library, on James Baldwin

JUNE 29 The Reverend Mihee Kim-Kort, co-pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Annapolis, Maryland, on queerness and faith 

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Sundays, June 22 at 11 am

Music of Handel for Choir & Orchestra

Several Sundays throughout the year are designated A Choral Feast and celebrate a specific theme, composer, or a major choral work. This morning’s service features music from George Frederic Handel’s Chandos Anthem No. 9 “O Praise the Lord with one consent,” HWV 254. Composed in 1717-18, it is one of eleven such works written when Handel served as composer-in-residence for the future First Duke of Chandos.

They combine verses of the Psalms as they appear in the New Version of the Psalms of David (1696), a lively translation by Nahum Tate (1652-1715) and Nicholas Brady (1659-1726). (Tate also penned the carol “While Shepherds watched their flocks by night,” as well as the libretto to Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.) The work is scored for choir, soloists, and orchestra of strings, oboes, and organ, performed with an ensemble of period instruments.

Additionally, the St. Bartholomew’s Choristers will sing an aria from Theodora, an oratorio first performed at Covent Garden in 1750, and telling the story of the fourth-century Christian martyr of that name. The Sanctus and Benedictus are an adaptation by Alexander Pattavina from an aria from Athaliah, and oratorio based on the Jean Racine play Athalie.

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May 30 and 31

Spend a weekend at St. Bart’s in prayer, learning, and community. Offerings will include a Friday evening reception, Saturday morning church tour, and keynote speaker, the Reverend Canon Scott Gunn, co-author of Walk in Love: Episcopal Beliefs and Practices. While especially geared towards our Pathfinders class and virtual attenders, all are welcome! 

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