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: […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this CLGS Lavender Lunch, we continued the exploration of communities of color living with the intersecting realities of queer identity and religious faith by focusing on LGBTQ organizing within Muslim communities. Our speaker, Muhsin Hendricks [1967-2025], was an Islamic Scholar and an Imam […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Sacred Reckonings with the Doctrine of Discovery’s Betrayal: What Queerness Teaches Us About Strategies of Resistance, Embodied Joy, and Acts of Reparation with Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel The 14th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Recorded on Thursday, 17 October 2024 Rev. […]
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. […]
Click here to view a video recording this CLGS event via Zoom! Rev. Cedric Harmon, Rev. Gwen Thomas, and Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow engage in an intimate conversation about their work as organizers of the CLGS Souls A’Fire conferences. The first Souls A’Fire conference took place in 2003 with Dr. Johari Jobir, the first Coordinator […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lecture! Queer Crip Revelation: Disability Dance, Jewish Text, and the Sacred Potency of Difference with Professor Julia Watts Belser The 13th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Recorded on 20 October 2022 In this CLGS lecture, Professor Julia Watts Belser probes the embodied ethics and spiritual […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS event! In this CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation Rev. Dr. Eric Thomas a queer Afro-Latinx imagines a decolonial vision for Jesus’ instruction to be(come) salt, light, and sugar in The Gospel of Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. Reverend Dr. Eric A. Thomas is a scholar, […]