Sunday Theology Talks are offered every Sunday, with rare exceptions, at 10 a.m. Videos of past classes are available below. You can also subscribe to our theology playlist on YouTube.
Sharp Faith: Art and Spirituality
“Lovely In Limbs”: Poise, Possession, and Precarity in Julien Nguyen’s The Temptation of Christ (2020)
Sunday, July 27, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Sharp Faith: Art and Spirituality
Chagall’s White Crucifixion: Christ the Crucified Jew
Sunday, July 13, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Sharp Faith: Art and Spirituality
Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: Christ the Powerless Judge
Sunday, July 6, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Sharp Faith Sunday Theology Talk
Love, Hope, And The Defiant Story Of Grace
Sunday, June 29, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Sunday Theology Talk: The New Prayer Book: From 1928 to 1979
Sunday, June 22, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.Sunday Theology Talk: The Beginnings of an American Prayer Book
Sunday, June 15, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.Sharp Faith Sunday Theology Talk
Power, Sin, And The Church We Get
Sunday, June 8, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.Sharp Faith Sunday Theology Talk
The Puzzle Of Jesus
Sunday, June 1, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.Sharp Faith Sunday Theology Talk
A Faith that Does Not Give All The Answers And Makes Impossible Demands
Sunday, May 18, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.Faith and Emotions
Why Believing in God Feels so Right
Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Praying with Nelson Mandela
Sunday, April 27, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.Sunday Theology Talk: Comprehension and Restoration: Radicals and Royalists
Sunday, April 6, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Spirituality of Healing
How do faith and prayer bring us hope in times of illness and suffering?
Sunday, March 30, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.The Spirituality of Healing
Lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover’ (Mark 16.18): the healing mission of the Church
Sunday, March 23, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.The Spirituality of Healing
What is spiritual healing? The approaches of faith and science
Sunday, March 16, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.The Spirituality of Healing
Jesus’ miracles and healing activity: should we expect miracles today?
Sunday, March 9, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Theology of Evil and Suffering
“Is There Any Value in Suffering?
Sunday, March 2, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Theology of Evil and Suffering
Can we Believe in a Good and All-Powerful God when we see so much Suffering in the World?
Sunday, February 23, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Theology of Evil and Suffering
Can Suffering be God Punishing or Warning Us?
Sunday, February 16, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Theology of Evil and Suffering
How Does the Question of Evil Impact our Belief in the Existence of God?
Sunday, February 9, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
“Keeping the Story Alive: 60 Years Later”. Black History Month
Sunday, February 2, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
“The Order of the Holy Cross and the Reason for Monks”. Religious Life Sunday
Sunday, January 26, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Understanding Our Church and Faith Through a Reparations Lens
Sunday, January 19, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.Sunday Theology Talk: The First Book of Common Prayer - Reformation and Tradition
Sunday, January 12, 2025 @ 10:00 a.m.
Advent series on Marilynne Robinson's Novel Gilead: Can We Be Honest in the Way We Tell Our Memories?
Sunday, December 22, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.Advent series on Marilynne Robinson's Novel Gilead: Self-Knowledge and the Power of Grace
Sunday, December 15, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.Advent series on Marilynne Robinson's Novel Gilead: The Danger of Being Good
Sunday, December 8, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.Advent series on Marilynne Robinson's Novel Gilead: Should we see the World as Ugly or as Beautiful?
Sunday, December 1, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Collision of Evil and Grace
Sunday, November 17, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Military Chaplaincy
Sunday, November 10, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Threat of Hell
Sunday, November 3, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Price of Evil
Sunday, October 27, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
A Gothic Bicentennial: The Architectural History of St. Thomas Church
Guest Speaker: Cole M. Wagner
Sunday, October 20, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Doctor of the Church?
Sunday, October 13, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Mapping the Issue of Suffering and Evil
Surviving Natural and Social Evil
Sunday, September 29, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Can Human Suffering be Too Much
Sunday, September 22, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Mapping the Issue of Suffering and Evil
Are Human Beings Innately Evil?
Sunday, September 15, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
John Mason Neale (1818-1866)
Sunday, July 28, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Lecture on Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
Sunday, July 14, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is the Church the same thing as the Kingdom of God?
Sunday, June 30, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Social Justice, Civil Society, and Simone Weil (1909-1943), with Dr. Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft
Sunday, June 23, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is the Church the Temple of the Holy Spirit?
Sunday, June 16, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Frederick Myers Morris: Saint Thomas Church’s Civil Rights Rector
Sunday, June 9, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is the Church the Body of Christ?
Sunday, June 2, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is the Church the People of God?
Sunday, May 12, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Stone Masons of York Minster
Sunday, May 5, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Do Christians have to believe in The Resurrection?
Sunday, April 28, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Chapel Royal, Ancient and Modern
Speaker: The Revd. Canon Paul Wright LVO
Sunday, April 21, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Something Else is Necessary: Dorothy Day's (1897-1970) Radical Social-Spiritual Vision, with Dr. Travis LaCouter Katholieke
Sunday, April 14, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Rector Ernest M. Stires and the Social Gospel
Sunday, April 7, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Why did Jesus Die on a Cross?
Sunday, March 17, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Role of Women in the history of Saint Thomas
Sunday, March 10, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Can Jesus' Death on the Cross be Called a 'Sacrifice'?
Sunday, March 3, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
John Andrew and Gerre Hancock: the Historic Partnership of a Rector and Organist and Choirmaster
Sunday, February 25, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Ralph Adams Cram and the Architecture of Saint Thomas Church
Sunday, February 18, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Bishop John Henry Hobart and the Founding of Saint Thomas Church
Sunday, February 11, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is the Real Meaning of Sacrifices in Scripture?
Sunday, February 4, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Spring Theology Lecture - To Keep the Feast: Saint Thomas Church in War and Peace, with Jon Meacham
Saturday, February 3, 2024 @ 11:00 a.m.
Did Jesus Die to Expiate our Sins?
Sunday, January 28, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Why is Blood so Important in Scripture?
Sunday, January 21, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
Building the Beloved Community: The Incarnation in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Civil Rights Philosophy
Sunday, January 14, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
1905: The Burning of Saint Thomas and the Crisis of Religion in Modern Manhattan
Sunday, January 7, 2024 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Church and Community Organizing: a History of Mutual Entanglement, with Dr. Nicholas Hayes-Mota
Sunday, December 17, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Do Christians Have to Become Holy?
Sunday, December 10, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is Hope?
Sunday, December 3, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Dissenting Church: Witness as Protest, with Dr. Travis LaCouter Katholieke
Sunday, November 26, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Place, Imagination, and Hope: A Theological Reflection on the Paintings of Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), with Dr. Jessica Scott
Sunday, November 19, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is Charity?
Sunday, November 12, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is Faith?
Sunday, November 5, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is Grace?
Sunday, October 22, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Theologies of Engagement, with Dr. Sean Larsen
Sunday, October 8, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Shrines of the Saints today: is there a place in Anglicanism?
Sunday, October 1, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What Does the Holy Spirit Do?
Sunday, September 24, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is the Holy Spirit Really God?
Sunday, September 17, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is the Holy Spirit a Person?
Sunday, September 10, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Dom Gregory Dix (1901-1952), Priest and Liturgist, with Canon Robin Ward
Sunday, August 20, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Bishop Edward King and the Revival of the Episcopal Office, with Canon Robin Ward
Sunday, August 13, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is Jesus a historical character or a myth?
Sunday, August 6, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Was Jesus really human?
Sunday, July 30, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
How can God become a human being? The Incarnation
Sunday, July 23, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
If Jesus was really God, how could he pray to God?
Sunday, July 16, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is Jesus Really God?
Sunday, July 9, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Hope for the Messiah
Sunday, July 2, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is there an "original sin"?
Sunday, June 25, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What does "to be created in the image of God" mean?
Sunday, June 18, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Creation and Faith in God
Sunday, June 11, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Trinity and our Identity as ‘Christians’
Sunday, June 4, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
How should we read Scripture?
Sunday, May 28, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Is Scripture the Word of God?
Sunday, May 21, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is the Bible?
Sunday, May 7, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Perspectives on the Sunni-Shia Conflict in the Middle East
Sunday, April 30, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
How do we know God? The Role of Faith
Sunday, April 23, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is Theology?
Sunday, April 16, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Does prayer really work?
Sunday, March 26, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What does forgiveness have to do with prayer?
Sunday, March 19, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
What is the role of the Holy Spirit in our prayer?
Sunday, March 12, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Should our prayer be addressed to the Father?
Sunday, March 5, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Did Jesus really need to pray?
Sunday, February 26, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Moses: God the Rescuer
Sunday, February 19, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Joseph: God the Gatherer
Sunday, February 12, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Jacob: God the Wrestler
Sunday, February 5, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Rebecca: God the Accomplice
Sunday, January 29, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
Abraham: God the Visitor
Sunday, January 22, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
The Shulammite: God the Troubadour
Sunday, January 15, 2023 @ 10:00 a.m.
