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Love in the Seat of Empire: Black Diasporic Survival as a Radical Practice | A Reflection by Rev. Terence Mayo

2 days ago by Bernard Schlager

7 February 2026 Under U.S. fascist rule, Black love is often described as a personal ethic of self-care, chosen family, and community resilience. But it is also transnational: a radical, border-crossing practice that insists we are bound to one another across oceans, languages, and histories of extraction. Black love becomes the discipline of seeing, hearing, […]

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14 January 2026 by CLGS

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2026: A Year to Reclaim Religion and Rescue Religious Liberty | A Commentary by Bernard Schlager

06 January 2026 by Bernard Schlager

5 January 2026 2026: A Year to Reclaim Religion and Rescue Religious Liberty The headlines in 2025 were filled with stories about government leaders using the rhetoric of religion to support restricting the rights and even erasing the identities of LGBTQ+ people and our families. In state after state, lawmakers invoked religious language to justify […]

CLGS offers online Microcertificate in Catholic LGBTQ+ Ministry

18 December 2025 by CLGS

Click here to register for this online CLGS microcertificate program! CLGS is proud to announce our first online Microcertificate in Catholic LGBTQ+ Ministry! Taught by Pacific School of Religion Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, this microcertificate provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Catholic LGBTQ+ ministry by weaving together Scripture, Tradition, theology, ethics, and pastoral practice. […]

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09 December 2025 by Bernard Schlager

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Remembering Advent and World AIDS Day: Holding Tension and Hope | A Meditation on Black Faith, HIV/AIDS, and Sacred Remembrance by Rev. Terence Mayo

07 December 2025 by CLGS

7 December 2025 Advent is the church’s ancient practice of living inside holy tension, presence and absence, hope and dread, peace and turmoil, joy and suffering. To take up Advent is to stand with our Black ancestors in a paradoxical posture: waiting for someone who has already arrived, and celebrating a reality that has not […]

The 19th Annual | 2026 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture: Bishop Tonyia Rawls Speaks on: MELANIN: The Good… The Bad… and the Sacred

01 December 2025 by Bernard Schlager

MELANIN: The Good…The Bad…and the Sacred Bishop Tonyia Rawls Thursday, 16 April 2026 | 4pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! We are living in a day and age where the amount of God-given melanin in one’s skin can literally determine what jobs you have access to, what […]

Building Your TDOR Toolkit with The CLGS Transgender Roundtable

14 November 2025 by CLGS

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 […]

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10 November 2025 by CLGS

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A Queer Spirituality for the Wilderness by Ish Ruiz

09 November 2025 by CLGS

9 November 2025 When I reflect on the Trump era, what comes up for me is not so much the policies, but the feeling – that cold, anxious pulse of knowing that people like me are being targeted as unacceptable threats. Christian theology has served as justification for this scapegoating. For queer Christians, this era […]