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Sitting in Stillness and Prayer: Reflection Moments for this Election Season with Grace Gilliam and Bernie Schlager | A CLGS Queering the 2024 Vote Event

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Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Queering the 2024 Vote workshop! A CLGS Queering the 2024 Vote* Workshop Series ❦ Sitting in Stillness and Prayer is an online retreat space intended to provide an opportunity for meditation, reflection, and shared presence as we approach Election Day 2024. Drawing from both Buddhist and […]

Mi Casa Es Tu Casa: Queer Latinx Reflections on the Family with MT Dávila and Natalia Imperatori-Lee | A CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event! This CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event explored the concept of familia through a queer Latinx lens. Our panelists reflected on the many ways “familia” is constructed and deployed in Latinx cultures and applied a queer reading of familial relationality (including biological families and “chosen” families) […]

Hineini! | Here I Am!: Jewish Liturgy Old and New in Celebration of LGBTQ Pride | A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

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Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queries Series event! “Hear the gay shouts of liberation in the tents of the just!” (Psalm 118:15). Reciting the festival liturgy on Pride Shabbat was an important innovation at Congregation Beth Simchat Torah in New York, founded in 1973; so was this early gay-inclusive new […]

Transitioning to Inclusion: A Guide to Welcoming Transgender Children and Their Families in Your Community of Faith

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This resource was written by Kelsey Pacha for CLGS, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Pacific School of Religion, and made possible by a grant from the Atkinson Foundation. Through their generosity, CLGS has worked with congregations, parents, and religious educators in San Mateo County and beyond to create […]

Trans Day of Visibility Toolkit for Congregations with Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw

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Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Transgender Roundtable Event! Trans Day of Visibility (TDoV) is celebrated on this year on 31 March 2024, and in interactive this workshop we explored the meaning and importance of TDoV and explore how to bring a full celebration of TDoV to your own religious/spiritual community. In this workshop […]