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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
James Baldwin and Black Queer Prophetic Lament (and Hope?) Professor Bryan Massingale Thursday, 8 May 2025 | 4pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! James Baldwin is often invoked as a seminal figure in Black queer thought, but he is still underutilized as a source for (white) queer […]
Why Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much? Professor Luis Menéndez-Antuña Thursday, 18 April 2024 | 4pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! Biblical interpreters hate sex, one might think, because of the church’s age-old war against sex or the church’s inability to think of healthy sexual […]
CLGS is proud to announce that Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey will offer the 16th Annual | 2023 John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture! The Big Lie and Its Old Hatred Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! American politics has long been a challenging system for its Black citizens. […]
Click here to register for this ONLINE Lecture and follow-up discussion which will be offered via Zoom! Queer Crip Revelation: Disability Dance, Jewish Text, and the Sacred Potency of Difference with Professor Julia Watts Belser The 13th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 20 October 2022, at 2:30pm (Pacific Time) (Online) Join the Center […]
Click here to check out our Fall 2022 Programming Calendar! Updated 26 August 2022
Click here to register in advance for this ONLINE Lecture, which will be offered via Zoom! Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing ONLINE on Thursday, 21 April 2022, at 6:30pm | Pacific Time Professor Rolf Nolasco The 15th Annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture ONLINE on Thursday, 21 April 2022, at 6:30pm | Pacific Time | Pre-Registration is required […]
Click here to register for this ONLINE Lecture, which will be offered via Zoom! Trans Theology Without Apology: Using Art and Historical Exegesis to Celebrate Trans Figuration and the Trans Aesthetic in the Bible with Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer The 12th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture ONLINE on Thursday, 14 October 2021, at 6:30pm | Pacific Time Veiled metaphors […]