Listen and learn from influential minds
St. John’s Speaker Series is a popular adult education offering held between services at 10:00 AM on select Sundays from September to May. Nationally noted individuals, from scholars and poets to world leaders and faith leaders, present on pressing issues of the day and impactful historical events to expand our knowledge as individuals and as a community.
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Upcoming Speaker Series
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Speaker Series Recordings
Dr. Angelina Arrington, head of the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys
Dr. Angelina Arrington | May 18, 2025
Mark Twain's Time in Washington, DC
John Muller | May 11, 2025
The Refugee Committee will host policy expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | May 4, 2025
The Increasing Threat of Microplastics
Dr. Jesse Meiller | April 27, 2025
South Africa Trip Recap
Members of St. John's share about their recent visit to our partner school in South Africa. | April 30, 2025
A Living Relationship with God - Part Three
The Rev. Martin L. Smith | March 23, 2025
A Living Relationship with God - Part Two
The Rev. Professor Sarah Coakley | March 16, 2025
A Living Relationship with God - Part One
The Rev. Professor Sarah Coakley | March 9, 2025
Georgetown University’s Legacy of Slavery Project
Adam Rothman | March 2, 2025
An Evening with Franco Prinsloo
Franco Prinsloo | February 23, 2025
Past Speaker Series
A Living Relationship with God - Part Three
The Rev. Martin L. Smith
March 23, 2025
10:00am
A Living Relationship with God - Part Two
The Rev. Professor Sarah Coakley
March 16, 2024
10:00am
A Living Relationship with God - Part One
The Rev. Professor Sarah Coakley
March 9, 2025
10:00 am
G. Derek Musgrove
Black “Protest Politics” in the 1980s and 1990s
December 8, 2024
10:00am
Vice Admiral Frank “Trey” Whitworth
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
November 3, 2024
10:00am
Ann Compton
My Career at ABC News, and Thoughts on Media and Politics Today
September 29, 2024
10:00am
The Hon. Alejandro Mayorkas
The State of Homeland Security Today
September 8, 2024
10:00am
Columba Stewart
Voices of the Ancestors: Saving the World’s Manuscripts from Destruction
May 19, 2024
10:00am
America’s Story Lives Here
Mark Hudson, Tudor Place Historic House & Garden
May 5, 2024
10:00am
The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
February Presidential Series
February 11, 18, & 25, 2024
10:00am
All In for DC Kids
Communities in Schools of the Nation’s Capital
January 21, 2024
10:00am
Simon Johnson
Power and Progress: The History and Economics of Major Technological Transformations
December 10, 2023
10:00am
Fiona Hill
Senior Fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe
November 19, 2023
10:00am
Thomas B.F. Cummins
Dumbarton Oaks Professor of the History of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art
November 12, 2023
10:00am