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Posts by Bernard Schlager
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The 19th Annual | 2026 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture: Bishop Tonyia Rawls Speaks on: MELANIN: The Good… The Bad… and the Sacred
MELANIN: The Good…The Bad…and the Sacred Bishop Tonyia Rawls Thursday, 16 April 2026 | 4pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! We are living in a day and age where the amount of God-given melanin in one’s skin can literally determine what jobs you have access to, what […]
A Queer Spirituality for the Wilderness by Ish Ruiz
9 November 2025 When I reflect on the Trump era, what comes up for me is not so much the policies, but the feeling – that cold, anxious pulse of knowing that people like me are being targeted as unacceptable threats. Christian theology has served as justification for this scapegoating. For queer Christians, this era […]
The Latest CLGS Book: Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell (2025)
31 May 2025 CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell. Edited by Bernard Schlager, Executive Director of the Center, this book contains 11 essays based upon lectures given in our annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture series. From the publisher, Routledge Press: […]
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Faith as Liberation: CLGS at 25 Years of Life-Saving Work… and Counting!
1 September 2025 Twenty-five years ago this month, The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion was founded on a simple yet revolutionary premise: that faith and LGBTQ+ identity are not only compatible, but that religious leaders have a moral imperative to stand against hatred and discrimination. Today, […]
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Bishop Karen Oliveto is our 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecturer!
Click here to register in advance for this ONLINE lecture The Hopes and Fears of All the World Are Met in Thee: Identity’s Liberating Power with Bishop Karen Oliveto The 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 4pm (Pacific Time) This will be an ONLINE Lecture Join the Center for LGBTQ […]
Liberating Love: A Call to Defend Marriage Equality | by Bernard Schlager
17 June 2025 The Southern Baptist Convention’s recent resolution demanding the Supreme Court overturn of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, is a stark reminder that the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States is far from over. This resolution also signals a troubling denial of the radical love that […]