Your congregation may have made the decision to welcome people of all sexual orientations before there was a significant awareness about including gender identity. You may have already talked about and worked on including gay, lesbian and bisexual people, but not transgender people. Now is a great time to revisit those conversations and expand your […]
We are excited to announce our CLGS Lavender Lunches (all ONLINE, of course) for Spring of 2021! Please join us for one – or more! – of these events; each takes place via Zoom from 12:15pm to 1:15pm (Pacific Time). Click on the Lavender Lunches below for more details: Tuesday, 9 February 2021: “It’s OK […]
CLGS is pleased to announce that, effective 1 July 2020, LGBTQ-RAN (The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network) has become an independent 501(c)3 organization. Based in Chicago, Illinois, LGBTQ-RAN is an online organization that assists LGBTQ religious leaders and groups in determining how best to preserve their records and papers in appropriate repositories; in addition, the organization […]
To download a copy, please click here: Summer Session 2019 flyer For more information please contact Keaton Andreas at kandreas@psr.edu, +1 (510) 849-8231
by Nichola Torbett Love knows no borders. That is what it means to be queer. It means we love outside the lines. We are dissidents for love. We love in spite of obstacles. Queer people have the potential to show forth in a particularly vivid way the God-given capacity to love in spite of obstacles—in spite […]
by Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow, Coordinator of the African-American Roundtable, rstringfellow@clgs.psr.edu In partnership with the Center for American Progress, the National LGBTQ Task Force, Freedom for All Americans, ACLU of Michigan, Equality Michigan and Inclusive Justice (Michigan’s progressive faith organizing council), I have continued my work with four African-American organizers who did outreach with several Black […]
In October 2018, the long-awaited canonization of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will take place. One ceremony at the Vatican, in Rome, will be presided by the Pope. The other celebration takes place in San Salvador at the Fiesta del Pueblo. Salvadorans from all walks-of-life are gathering to commemorate and honor Archbishop Romero as the first […]
CLGS is hiring a Major Gifts Officer. Download this information as a PDF. Job Summary The CLGS Major Gifts Officer (MGO) is responsible for the planning and implementation of the Center’s Endowment Campaign [80% of the position]; the MGO will also provide ancillary support for the CLGS Annual Fund [10%], and the CLGS Annual Spring […]
The LGBT Religious Archives Network is inviting submissions of papers for the 2017-18 LGBT Religious History Award. This award is the only academic award given for research and writing in the field of LGBTQIA religious history. The guidelines for submissions can be found here: https://www.lgbtran.org/HistoryAward.aspx The deadline for submissions has been extended to Monday, December 11, 2017.
They Will Be Remembered: What Resilience Teaches Us, Transgender Day of Remembrance Posted by Pacific School of Religion on Tuesday, November 21, 2017