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An August 2020 Online Course: Gender and Sexuality in the Bible!

28 July 2020 by Bernard Schlager

This graduate-level, 3-credit course is offered online from 3 August 2020 through 14 August 2020 (Monday thru Friday). For more information, contact Professor Sharon Jacob at: sjacob@psr.edu. This course will examine the ways in which ancient views on gender and sexuality inform and influence Biblical Texts. We will read texts from the Jewish Scriptures and the Greco-Roman contexts […]

CLGS Mourns the Closure of the Religious Institute — and Celebrates Its Life-Changing Work

24 July 2020 by Bernard Schlager

This week the Religious Institute, “a multifaith organization dedicated to advocating for sexual, gender, and reproductive health, education, and justice in faith communities and society” announced that it would cease operations after 20 years of effective, far-reaching, and life-giving work. To quote the recent statement issued by RI’s Board of Directors, “the work of the Religious […]

CLGS July 2020 e-newsletter

04 July 2020 by Bernard Schlager

CLGS July 2020 e-newsletter

Accidental Activist: In Appreciation of the Life and Legacy of Aimee Australia Stephens

03 July 2020 by Bernard Schlager

On Monday morning, June 15, 2020, the US Supreme Court declared that federal law now protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination. The 6-3 opinion was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch who was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts. The decision came as quite a pleasant surprise for LGBTQ activists who have been working tirelessly on obtaining […]

LGBTQ-RAN Becomes Independent 501(c)3 Organization

02 July 2020 by CLGS

CLGS is pleased to announce that, effective 1 July 2020, LGBTQ-RAN (The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network) has become an independent 501(c)3 organization. Based in Chicago, Illinois, LGBTQ-RAN is an online organization that assists LGBTQ religious leaders and groups in determining how best to preserve their records and papers in appropriate repositories; in addition, the organization […]

CLGS Deplores Trump’s Denial of Health Care Protections for Trans People

13 June 2020 by Bernard Schlager

CLGS PRESS RELEASE 13 June 2020 The CLGS Transgender Roundtable, a program of the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS), deplores the recent decision of the Trump administration to deny the civil rights of Transgender people by allowing medical professionals, hospitals, and insurance companies to discriminate on the basis of gender identity. […]

CLGS June 2020 e-newsletter

07 June 2020 by Bernard Schlager

CLGS June 2020 e-newsletter

CLGS STATEMENT ON THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD

02 June 2020 by Bernard Schlager

2 June 2020 “The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.” – Maya Angelou The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) condemns the brutal murder of George Floyd by […]

CLGS African American Roundtable Issues Statement on Murder of George Floyd

01 June 2020 by Bernard Schlager

16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought […]

Summer 2020 Online Course: Homosexuality and the Christian Tradition

29 May 2020 by CLGS

This online 3-credit course (8 – 19 June 2020) offers an historical overview and survey of attitudes toward homoeroticism and homosexuality in ancient, medieval, and modern Christianity in the West and in present-day American Christianities. Several key figures, texts, and movements will be considered and analyzed with a view toward understanding and interpreting their impact […]