What a year it has been at The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS)! Since 2000 we have offered high-quality, innovative programs that make a genuine difference in the lives of LGBTQ people, our communities of faith, and our families. While we are proud of all our work over the years, I […]
By Davíd E. Patiño and the Transgender Seminarian Cohort As trans people, we know the love of God. We feel it in our bones, in the very skin that lines our bodies, in the very nature of who we are. God is that voice within us that shows us the way to authenticity, to self-love, […]
By Rev. Dr. Carla E. Roland Guzmán The use of Latinx is transgressive and liberative!!! Why does the Latinx Roundtable uses Latinx (LRT)? Language matters. Language not only describes our understanding of the world about us, but language can also shape our reality. Although I am a Latinx person from Puerto Rico, I often talk about […]
In July the Jewish Roundtable of CLGS hosted a Summit for LGBTQ Jewish clergy on Confronting Trumpism. Forty spiritual leaders gathered for plenaries, workshops and worship. The rabbis and cantors were a diverse group: ranging in age from their twenties to their eighties; serving in academia, varying sized congregations, and social justice organizations; differently abled; […]
Five Pacific School of Religion (PSR) students joined CLGS Executive Director Bernie Schlager in July for CLGS’ 5th Annual “Communities of Liberation” course, an Immersive Learning Experience located in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Offered in coordination with PSR and CELAC Freire, a progressive Spanish-language school in Cuernavaca, this immersion experience included daily intensive language classes, conversations with local […]
The Supreme Court’s ruled today in the Masterpiece Cake case that the state of Colorado had followed a flawed process against the baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple because it was not neutral in its approach to religion. At the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion […]
By Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw This year, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day have landed on the same day. When looking at these two events, I have a clear preference for one over the other. Commercials have filled the air over the past month, bombarding straight men with messages about straight women, “Show her you truly love […]
“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best … is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see […]
After the Pulse tragedy, I wrote a long Facebook post analyzing the media coverage and Episcopal Church response to the mass shooting. My post was about ways in which LGBTQ+ and Latinx persons had been erased from the narrative given the incessant and one-dimensional focus on the shooter and guns. The reality of who was […]
Gathering to continue their transformative work on LGBTQIA+ acceptance in the Latino/a/x community, members of Fe, Familia, Igualdad: The Latinx Roundtable issued the following statement: Faith, Family, Equality: The Latinx Roundtable condemns oppression and inequality and joins the anti-oppression efforts of the thousands of other LGBTQIA+ activists and allies at the Creating Change 2017 conference […]