Click here to view this CLGS Lavender Lunch! Queer Indigenous/Two Spirit life has been in a biopolitical war of survival with the violent encroachment of heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism on our lands, spiritual practices, family formations, and education. How do we strive for thrival in times of survival? Is this even a worthy goal in […]
26 December 2025 Does your community have a book club or discussion group? Take a look at the titles you’ve read over the last couple of years and consider whether they are fully inclusive of LGBTQ people and themes. Sometimes, groups inadvertently adopt suggested lists created for book groups that overlook diversity when making their […]
Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this workshop, we explore ways to honor Trans Day of Remembrance in congregations and community organizations. The workshop leaders share ideas from a variety of faith-based and secular settings, and participants shared questions and ideas from their own faith and community contexts. Workshop Leaders […]
Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this Lavender Lunch theologian and librarian Keegan Osinski discusses her recent book, Queering Wesley, Queering the Church, (Cascade Books, 2021) and its presentation of a prototype for thinking about Wesleyan holiness as an expansive openness to the love and grace of God in queer Christian lives rather […]
Click HERE for a video recording of this CLGS Lecture The Hopes and Fears of All the World Are Met in Thee: Identity’s Liberating Power with Bishop Karen Oliveto The 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture | 9 October 2025 In a time marked by rising oppression, historical erasure, and attacks on bodily and spiritual […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! As crises of climate, empire, and identity unfold, queer and trans AAPI communities are cultivating fierce and tender ways of surviving, leading, and imagining otherwise. In this CLGS Lavender Lunch, Dr. Lisa Asedillo explored what it means to be “called” in a world […]
Click here for a link to a video recording of this CLGS Transgender Roundtable event! In this workshop, members of the Trans Religious Leadership Cohort explored how rituals can be sources of collective and individual power, especially in times of transition. In addition, We Cohort members drew upon the deep histories of queer communities adeptly creating […]