To view a video recording of this CLGS Event, click here! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch members of our Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort explore the complicated dynamics of ministry and religious leadership in extraordinary times. Presenters invite attendees to explore their own leadership experiences (both religious and secular) to help “queer” the concept of […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this CLGS Lavender Lunch Unoma Azuah explores a variety of themes related to her experiences as an African, lesbian immigrant to the United States. She also shares excerpts from her recently-published memoir, Embracing My Shadow: Growing up Lesbian in Nigeria, and […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online panel discussion we explore ways that faith communities can become safer spaces for trans and nonbinary congregants, participants, and leaders. Members of our Trans Seminarian Cohort – and other trans and nonbinary panelists – will discuss some of the successes and pitfalls […]
Click here to view a video recording of this online CLGS Lavender Lunch! The intersection of faith and spirituality with gender and sexuality provides both a history of trauma and a precedent for inclusion. In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch, Tahil Sharma explores the ways that the current interfaith movement makes it possible for religious and […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch, Benjamin Brenkert reflects on the future church for LGBTQ+ People and their allies. As a former Jesuit, he proposes the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a means for people of faith to discern membership in churches […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this Lavender Lunch, Roman Catholic Sisters Grace Surdovel, IHM, Sue Becker, RDC, and Jeanne Christensen, RSM, discuss their recently-published anthology Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious (New Ways Ministry, 2021). In telling their stories of self discovery and acceptance, these […]
Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this Lavender Lunch Kendra Twenter centers women of the Bible who were abused, unnamed, and used to justify the inappropriate crossing of boundaries. Based upon a video series that she created for her Final Project for a Certificate of Sexuality & Religion from Pacific […]