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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 […]

Rabbi Jane Litman, CLGS Jewish Roundtable Coordinator: Reflections on HIV/AIDS Ministry

29 May 2020 by Bernard Schlager

“I sat in my quiet bookshelf lined study, listening intently to the young man awkwardly perched on the chair next to me. The thin pale man was silently leaking tears, and finally spoke, “He was lying on the couch and said, ‘I’m going to take all the pain killers we have, everything. Then wait half an […]

CLGS Renews Its Sponsorship of ONLINE International Queer Women of Color Film Festival !

08 May 2020 by Bernard Schlager

CLGS is proud to continue this year as a Community Sponsor for the online 16th Annual San Francisco International Queer Women of Color Film Festival ! “QWOCMAP’s annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival will premiere 31 films in 3 screenings during the first-time-ever online livestream of our entire Film Festival, June 12-14, 2020. Our 16th […]

CLGS May 2020 e-newsletter

01 May 2020 by Bernard Schlager

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05 April 2020 by Bernard Schlager

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CLGS March 2020 e-newsletter

08 March 2020 by Bernard Schlager

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Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw, CLGS Trans Roundtable Coordinator: On Being a Faith Leader Who is Also A Trans Person

07 March 2020 by CLGS

As a pastor, I am always happy when one of my congregants represents our church in the community. Recently, a congregant was attending a community event and was approached by someone she did not know. This person said to my congregant, in a gossipy stage whisper, “I knew your pastor when he was a she.” […]

CLGS February 2020 e-newsletter

09 February 2020 by Bernard Schlager

CLGS February 2020 e-newsletter

Faith, Family, Equality/ Fe, Familia, Igualdad: The Latinx Roundtable – Expanding Our Reach

28 January 2020 by Bernard Schlager

Since the inception of the Latinx Roundtable we’ve had the intention and expectation that all of our resources would be available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. For some of us, having materials developed in – or translated to – Portuguese is beyond our individual expertise – but we have partnered with others and made it […]