1 June 2024 CLGS is currently seeking to hire a part-time Coordinator of the CLGS African American Roundtable. For a complete Job Description of this position, please click here. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1 August 2024 JOB OVERVIEW The Coordinator provides theological expertise as well as programmatic and convening support to the African American Roundtable by coordinating […]
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January 2024 Here we are at the start of a New Year! This is traditionally the time of year when people proclaim what they will do differently in their lives and announce what will be changed going forward. Some see this as a fresh start and an opportunity to become their best selves. I love […]
CLGS PRESS RELEASE 18 December 2023 In what is an initial – but nevertheless historically significant – step toward the celebration of committed relationships between persons of the same gender, today Pope Francis approved the blessing of couples in same-sex relationships. While today’s declaration does not overturn a 2021 ruling by the Vatican that had […]
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At The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion, we join with the World Health Organization (WHO) in honoring The Role of Communities in Driving Progress towards Ending AIDS on this World AIDS Day 2023, and we affirm the rights of all people to equitable access to health care so that everyone might live […]
From The Office of Communications at Pacific School of Religion Since its founding in 2000, the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion (PSR) has served LGBTQ+ people, families, and faith communities through advocacy, community-building, education, and research. As the United States’ first seminary-based LGBTQ+ center, CLGS is […]
Why Christians Must Speak Out Against Christian Nationalism In this op-ed piece PSR President Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy writes that “Christian Nationalism, and the ideologies that have fueled it from the very founding of our nation, have left a centuries-long trail of devastation that continues to this day. Through an alliance with White supremacy, it […]
The Space Between Us By Maij Vu Mai “…ritual is, above all else, the yardstick by which people measure their state of connection with the hidden ancestral realm, with which the entire community is genetically connected…The abandonment of ritual can be devastating…Where ritual is absent, the young ones are restless or violent, there are no […]