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Love in the Seat of Empire: Black Diasporic Survival as a Radical Practice | A Reflection by Rev. Terence Mayo

by Bernard Schlager

7 February 2026 Under U.S. fascist rule, Black love is often described as a personal ethic of self-care, chosen family, and community resilience. But it is also transnational: a radical, border-crossing practice that insists we are bound to one another across oceans, languages, and histories of extraction. Black love becomes the discipline of seeing, hearing, […]

Remembering Advent and World AIDS Day: Holding Tension and Hope | A Meditation on Black Faith, HIV/AIDS, and Sacred Remembrance by Rev. Terence Mayo

by CLGS

7 December 2025 Advent is the church’s ancient practice of living inside holy tension, presence and absence, hope and dread, peace and turmoil, joy and suffering. To take up Advent is to stand with our Black ancestors in a paradoxical posture: waiting for someone who has already arrived, and celebrating a reality that has not […]

Building Your TDOR Toolkit with The CLGS Transgender Roundtable

by CLGS

Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this workshop, we explore ways to honor Trans Day of Remembrance in congregations and community organizations. The workshop leaders share ideas from a variety of faith-based and secular settings, and participants shared questions and ideas from their own faith and community contexts. Workshop Leaders […]