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Join us for a conversation with some of the authors whose writings are featured in the new book Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture  (Presbyterian Publishing, 2025). As biblical scholar Ken Stone has written, this book “opens up a number of new paths in biblical scholarship. By highlighting the perspectives of trans people, the importance of gender variation, and insights from trans studies, the authors expand our understanding of both biblical texts and biblical interpretation.”

Our facilitator for this CLGS Lavender Lunch is Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw, Director of the CLGS Transgender Roundtable and long-time faculty member of the Trans Religious Leadership Cohort, a joint project of CLGS, the Freedom Center for Social Justice and the National LGBTQ Task Force.

We invite you to be a part of this exciting conversation about gender variation in biblical texts!

Our Presenters

Dr. Katy E. Valentine

Katy E. Valentine, PhD, one of three editors of Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture, is a public scholar and owner of Soul Forge Coaching, empowering entrepreneurs and leaders to expand their spirituality and increase their impact on the world. She is the author of For You Were Bought with a Price: Sex, Slavery, and Self-Control in a Pauline Community and numerous articles on enslavement, embodiment, and transgender identities and the Bible.

Dr. Valentine recently published “Examining Scripture in Light of Trans Women’s Voices” in The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible. She is cochair of the Society of Biblical Literature’s Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible program unit.

A CLGS Fall 2025 Lavender Lunch