3 October 2025 This year, we observe Banned Book Week from 5-11 October (2025). If you visit the American Library Association’s Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024, you will notice that 4 of the 10 were targeted because they include positive portrayals of LGBTQ+ people. When these books are removed or not included in […]
19 September 2025 Build coalitions with other communities of faith who are engaged in similar work and are LGBTQ inclusive! Working together in coalition can strengthen our work and remind us that we are part of a larger community. We can accomplish more together than we can as individuals. Find out which other congregations in […]
The Sex and Religion Project was created by Steven Anderson, a graduate of PSR’s Certificate of Sexuality (CSR) Program, and includes 6 downloadable pamphlets on the following topics: An Introduction to Sexual Identity An Introduction to Society and Sexuality An Introduction to the Bible’s “Clobber Passages” The Importance of Queer Theology The Importance of a Theology of Social […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch The Rainbow in the Seventh-day Adventist Church: The Nuances of Queer Identity and Activism in a Second Great Awakening Denomination In this first CLGS Lavender Lunch of 2025 Chris Ngugi (he/him), a member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, shares with us his ministry with The Rainbow […]
This resource was written by Kelsey Pacha, CLGS’ Youth Resources Coordinator, 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 this resource.
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 […]
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. […]