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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

Maureen Corrigan

The Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald

October 13, 2024

10:00am

The Rev. Christine Dunn

Welcoming our Refugee Neighbors

October 27, 2024

10:00am

Vice Admiral Frank “Trey” Whitworth

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

November 3, 2024

10:00am

G. Derek Musgrove

Black “Protest Politics” in the 1980s and 1990s

December 8, 2024

10:00am

Past Speaker Series

Scott Sklar

Clean and Sustainable Energy

October 6, 2024

10:00am

Ann Compton

My Career at ABC News, and Thoughts on Media and Politics Today

September 29, 2024

10:00am

Carroll Doherty

Pew Research Center

September 22, 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 Potomac Riverkeeper Network

Nancy Stoner, President

Sunday, April 21, 2023

10:00am

Bell Tower Restoration Project

April 14, 2024

10:00am

Michael Auslin

Contemporary Geopolitics in Asia

March 10, 2024

10:00am

Christopher Browne

The National Air & Space Museum

March 3, 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

Alan Cooperman

What Americans Think About Religion

January 14, 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