Sermons & Speaker Series

The Rev. William Morris

Regrounding With God ~ The Rev. Robert W. Fisher on May 14, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

Your Best Friend ~ the Rev. Sarah Akes-Cardwell on May 7, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

Lisa Kirchenbauer, St. John’s parishioner and an accomplished wealth manager, will speak on aligning values and money in a talk sponsored by the Care of Creation ministry. Some investors believe that there are trade-offs to Environmental, Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing or think that it’s just a fad. But the idea of aligning of values and investments is not new and h...

Pierre Thomas, Chief Justice Correspondent for ABC News, speaks about his work for the network, which he joined in November 2000. Thomas reports for “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” and all platforms including ABC News Radio and digital.

A Familiar Voice with the Rev. Robert W. Fisher: April 30, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker, will speak on his 2020 biography of President Biden. Osnos won the National Book Award for his most recent book, Age of Ambition, about economic, political, and social change in China, and he shared a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting at the Chicago Tribune.

The Rev. Shawn Evelyn

The Rev. William Morris

The Rev. Robert W. Fisher

The Rev. William Morris

The Rev. Shawn Evelyn

The Sermon For The Sunday Of The Passion: Palm Sunday - April 2, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

The Sermon For The Fifth Sunday In Lent: March 26, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

The Sermon For The Fourth Sunday In Lent: March 19, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

The Sermon For The Third Sunday In Lent: March 12, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

Kim Sajet, the first female director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, will speak about the gallery. Sajet is known for a cross-disciplinary approach that merges painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video, and performance, to make the past personal and deepen our understanding of how people have changed the course of history.

The Sermon For The Second Sunday In Lent: March 5, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

The Rev. Sarah Akes-Cardwell

The Rev. Robert W. Fisher

Sean Wilentz, Professor of History at Princeton University and author of The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008. Professor Wilentz studies U.S. political and social history. His book The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

The Rev. Robert W. Fisher

Tim Naftali is the director of the undergraduate public policy major and a Clinical Associate Professor of Public Service at New York University and previously served as founding director of the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Naftali has published a number of books and articles on national security and intelligence policy, international history an...

The Sermon For The Sixth Sunday After The Epiphany: February 12, 2023 by St. John's, Lafayette Square

President Reagan’s former Chief of Staff and the current publisher of The Washington Post will speak on the Reagan presidency. Ryan is the author of Wine in the White House, published by the White House Historical Association in 2020; editor of Ronald Reagan: The Wisdom and Humor of the Great Communicator, published by Harper Collins in 1995, and Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator, published by...