15 April 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: […]
Why Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much? Professor Luis Menéndez-Antuña Or Click here for a video recording of this CLGS John E. Boswell 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 arrangements outside of heterosexual monogamous marriage. […]
Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey offered the 16th Annual | 2023 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture: The Big Lie and Its Old Hatred Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey Click here to view a video recording of this online CLGS Lecture! American politics has long been a challenging system for its Black citizens. The fight to keep […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing Professor Rolf Nolasco The 15th Annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture Recorded on Thursday, 21 April 2022 Tagging queer bodies as intrinsically disordered, unholy, and perverse collides with the intimate knowing that this body, this queer flesh with all its […]
Click here for a video recording of this lecture! Love and Rage: The Path to Liberation with Lama Rod Owens | The 14th Annual | 2021 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture In our present day, when a politics of anger infuses every institutional and cultural sphere, Lama Rod Owens, author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger, explores […]
Patrick S. Cheng, Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Episcopal Divinity School, delivered the fourth annual Boswell Lecture on Thursday evening, April 28, 2011, titled, “The Rainbow Connection: Bridging Asian American and Queer Theologies.” The Rainbow Connection: Bridging Asian American and Queer Theologies — will help to mark and celebrate an emerging queer […]