Providing opportunities for all couples to celebrate their weddings is very important to fully affirm LGBTQ people in your community. It is seen by many as a sign that a faith group has truly committed to equality for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Denominations and religions have a variety of positions on […]
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 books groups that don’t take into diversity into account when making […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS AAPI Workshop! Last semester, AAPIRT Coordinator Maij Vu Mai (they/he) offered an intimate storytelling workshop in which they shared personal archival research of their own vulnerable connections and learnings with Queer AAPI Elemental Magic through their father’s legacy of mystic tending to bonsai trees, koi fishponds, […]
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 of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! Should I say yes to that offer? What does God want for my life? What am I supposed to be doing??!? Discernment – figuring out what to to next – is hard to begin with, but when we hope that there’s also a God […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS AAAPI Roundtable/CSR Workshop via Zoom! “Disability is a generative force. It’s magic. It really teaches me to be more thoughtful and aware of myself and my body, my body-mind in community. And as Alice Wong has put it so beautifully- disabled people are oracles.” (Alex Locust, Glamputee […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS event! In this interactive workshop members of the Trans Seminarian Leadership Cohort, a group of trans and nonbinary seminary students, explore religious leadership in our current social and political climate. Presenters also invited attendees to explore their own beliefs to help “queer” the concept of theological education […]