This week, Fr. Gioia continues a year-long course to dive into all the main areas of theology: Faith, Scripture, Tradition, God, Christ, Salvation, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, and the Church – always with an eye to their relevance for spirituality and for everyday life.Read more…
Theology
RSVP for the 2024 Spring Theology Lecture by Jon Meacham
Posted onRegister for the Jon Meacham Talk this Saturday, February 3 at 11am.
This is a personal reflection on the role Saint Thomas Church has played in the life of the nation and in the lives of its communicants through decades of tumult, from the Gilded Age through two world wars and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.Read more…
Sharp Faith (Week 25): Did Jesus die to expiate our sins? — Sunday Theology Talks
Led by the Rev. Dr. Luigi Gioia, Theologian in Residence
Posted onThis week, Fr. Gioia continues a year-long course to dive into all the main areas of theology: Faith, Scripture, Tradition, God, Christ, Salvation, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, and the Church – always with an eye to their relevance for spirituality and for everyday life.Read more…
Sharp Faith (Week 24): Why is blood so important in Scripture? — Sunday Theology Talks
Sunday, January 14, 2023 at 10am
Posted onThis Sunday we resume the Sharp Faith Series.
When we receive communion we are offered not only the Body of Christ to eat but also the blood of Christ to drink. We might have become so accustomed to this practice that we do not realize how shocking it is.Read more…
Building the Beloved Community: The Incarnation in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Civil Rights Philosophy — Sunday Theology Talks
Sunday, January 14, 2023 at 10am
Posted onIn this talk, Fr. Montgomery will explore the incarnational theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. to show how it formed much of the foundation of his civil rights philosophy.
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MLK Weekend and Black History Month 2024
Posted onOver the following weeks, in preparation for Black History Month, we invite parishioners to reflect on what it means to them to belong to a church that is a beloved community. In the old prayer book, the priest often addressed the congregation as ‘dearly beloved;’ what is our response to that invitation which is so old and part of our Anglican identity?Read more…
The 2024 Bicentennial Historical Lectures (Week 1) — Led by Prof. Jon Butler, Yale University
1905: The Burning of Saint Thomas and the Crisis of Religion in Modern Manhattan
Posted onThis talk is part of the 2024 Bicentennial Historical Lectures.
The fire that destroyed Saint Thomas Church in August 1905 (which tragically repeated the 1851 burning of Saint Thomas’s original sanctuary) plunged the congregation into a double crisis.Read more…
Announcing the Bicentennial Historical Lectures
Posted onThe Bicentennial Historical Lectures will focus on key moments and inspiring figures of the history of Saint Thomas, on the role played by women, and on the historical social outreach of our community.
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Church, Social Justice, and Civil Society (Week 5): The Church and Community Organizing: A History of Mutual Entanglement — Sunday Theology Talks
Led by Dr. Nicholas Hayes-Mota, Assistant Director of Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy
Posted onThis talk will explore the historical connection between the Christian church in the U.S. and the Alinsky tradition of community organizing, from which contemporary “faith-based community organizing” derives.Read more…
Sunday December 10 Theology Talk: Do Christians Have to Become Holy?
Led by Fr. Luigi Gioia
Posted onFor more information about our theology program and to receive links for weekly Sunday Theology Talks, please contact Fr. Luigi Gioia, Theologian in Residence.Read more…
