Forum Schedule September 2012 – May 2013 |
| September 16 |
Promoting a Just Peace in the Holy Land, presented by members of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington's Companion Diocese Committee for Jerusalem. |
| September 23 |
Heather R. Mizeur, a member of the Maryland General Assembly, will speak on The Dream Act and Marriage Equality. (Click here for audio of forum.) |
| September 30 |
The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
| October 7 |
Mickey Edwards, former Republican member of Congress, author, lecturer at Princeton University |
| October 14 |
Tom Hart is the US Executive Director of ONE, a global advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. You may have heard of ONE through the activism of Bono, lead singer for U2. |
| October 21 |
Jonathan Turley, professor at the George Washington University of Law, writer, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism, will speak on the cases being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this term. (Click here for Audio from the Forum). |
| November 4 |
Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, observer of Congress and politics, and author of It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, will speak on partisanship in Congress. (Click here for audio of the forum.) |
| November 11 |
Kim Dozier, Associated Press correspondent for intelligence and special operations (Click here for audio of the forum.) |
| November 18 |
Dr. James E. Hansen, climate change expert at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. (Click here for audio of the forum.) |
| December 2 |
The Rev. Virginia Gerbasi, St. John's Assistant Rector, on The Themes of Advent. |
| December 9 |
Hedrick Smith, Pulitizer-Prize winning, former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent, who will speak on his new book Who Stole the American Dream? (Click here for audio of the forum.) |
| January 13 |
Candidates for the Vestry will make presentations. |
| January 27 |
Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann, M. D., is Paul O'Neil Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis at the RAND Corporation. He will lead a discussion on Responding to Newtown: An Important Conversation on Gun Violence. See online his article, Silencing the Silence on Gun Research, in the December issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Click here for audio of the forum. |
| February 10 |
Philip Bobbitt, national security law professor at Columbia University and nephew of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Part I in a series on the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Click here for audio of forum. |
| February 17 |
Roger Wilkins who will speak on President Johnson and civil rights. Mr. Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General in President Johnson's Administration and was on the editorial staff of The Washington Post. He is a radio news commentator. |
| February 24 |
Mark Updegrove, Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. He will speak on Presidential Second Acts. Click here for audio of the forum. |
| March 3 |
Gigi Bradford on Faith and Poetry: Ordinary Epiphanies. Gigi has published poems and essays and taught poetry. She is President of the Folger Poetry Board. Her most recent publication is Shakespeare's Sisters: Women Writers Bridge Five Centuries. |
| March 10 |
James Billington, the Librarian of Congress. |
| April 14 |
Andrew Clarke on the Cross of Cong. St. John's processional cross is a replica of this cross, made in Ireland in 1123. |
| April 21 |
David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States. |
| April 28 |
Michael Bolden, who will speak on his journey on the Camino de Santiago, one of the great pilgrimages of Christianity. |
| May 5 |
Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction: Oversight in the Land of Genesis. |
| May 12 |
Robert Wilken, distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. |
| May 19 |
Rabbi Harold White, Theology Department at Georgetown University and first rabbi to be appointed to a full time Campus Ministry position at a Catholic university. |
Forum Schedule September 2011 – May 2012 |
| September 11 |
David Ignatius, columnist with The Washington Post, on The Decade Since 9/11/2001. |
| September 18 |
The Honorable Togo West, former Secretary of the Army and former Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs: Part I of Washington, DC: Past, Present, and Future. |
| September 25 |
Colbert King, Washington Post Columnist, Part II of Washington, DC. |
| October 2 |
Richard Bradley, Executive Director, Downtown BID |
| October 16 |
Youth of St. John's Church on Sights and Stories from our Journey to South Africa. |
| October 23 |
The Rev. Dr. Nancy James discusses her new book, The Developing Schism Within the Episcopal Church 1960 -- 2010. |
| November 6 |
St. John's Partners from St. Andrew's Church, Ramallah, in the Diocese of Jerusalem |
| November 13 |
The Honorable Alan Simpson, former U. S. Senator; co-chair of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform |
| November 20 |
Shira Fishman, DC Public School Teacher of the Year, 2011 on Switching Careers: From Consulting Firm Engineer to Public School Teacher. |
| December 4 |
The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington |
| December 11 |
José Andrés, Award-Winning Chef, Chairman Emeritus of DC CentralKitchen, and host and producer of PBS series Made in Spain. |
| January 8 |
Elaine Pagels, Professor of Religion and Author (Click for Video) |
| January 15 |
Rabbi Harold White, Former Senior Jewish Chaplain, Georgetown University and Rabbi at the Interfaith Families Project |
| January 22 |
Presentation by Candidates for St. John's Vestry |
| January 29 |
The Honorable James A. Baker, III, Former Secretary of State (Click for Video) |
| February 5 |
Annual Meeting |
| February 12 |
John Milton Cooper, Jr., Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin and author of several books on the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. |
| February 19 |
Kristie Miller, former Director of the Chicago Tribune Company. She will speak on her book, Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies. (Click for Audio) |
| February 26 |
Gigi Bradford on Faith and Poetry. Gigi is Chair of the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Board. She is a writer, editor, and teacher who co-edited Shakespeare's Sisters: Women Writers Bridge Five Centuries. (Click for Audio) |
| March 4 |
The Rev. Dr. Nancy James on her book The Complete Madame Guyon |
| March 11 |
James Woody, Executive Director, Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys. |
| March 18 |
The Rev. Tom Ward on Centering Prayer. |
| March 25 |
Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University, will speak on Interfaith Dialogue from a Muslim's Perspective. (Click for Audio) |
| April 22 |
The Ven. Sharron Dinnie, Rector, St Peter/St Paul Anglican Church, Springs, South Africa, on St. John's Partnership with the Kwasa Centre. |
| April 29 |
Jim Holman, Chairman of the Wagner Society of Washington, on Wagner, Christianity, and Redemption. Mr. Holman is author of Wagner's Ring: A Listener's Companion and Concordance. |
| May 13 |
Septime Webre, Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet, on The Creative Spirit of Dance. (Click for audio) |
| May 20 |
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, author of A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons. |
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