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A Queer Spirituality for the Wilderness by Ish Ruiz
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 […]
CLGS & MCC 2025-2026 Queering the Word ONLINE Preaching Workshops
Join us for one — or more! — of our 2025-2026 online Queering the Word Preaching Workshops! CLGS is offering 1 CEU per workshop. Workshop #1. Advent Preaching | A CLGS & MCC Queering the Word Workshop with Revs. Lauren Bennett and Jakob Hero-Shaw Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 1pm (Pacific) | 4pm (Eastern) A […]
The Latest CLGS Book: Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell (2025)
31 May 2025 CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell. Edited by Bernard Schlager, Executive Director of the Center, this book contains 11 essays based upon lectures given in our annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture series. From the publisher, Routledge Press: […]
Don’t Tell Us It’ll Probably Be Fine | by Jakob Hero-Shaw
5 October 2025 Your trans friends are scared. Our fears are fueled by new laws and by the uncertainty of what’s coming next. We see the risk of losing our health care. We live under restrictions in schools, in sports, and in restrooms. And when political leaders and organizations paint trans people as “dangerous,” it […]
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Join us on online THIS THURSDAY, 9 Oct 2025 @ 4pm (Pacific): Bishop Karen Oliveto is our 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecturer
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Click here to register in advance for this ONLINE lecture The Hopes and Fears of All the World Are Met in Thee: Identity’s Liberating Power with Bishop Karen Oliveto The 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 4pm (Pacific Time) This will be an ONLINE Lecture Join the Center for LGBTQ […]
Faith as Liberation: CLGS at 25 Years of Life-Saving Work… and Counting!
1 September 2025 Twenty-five years ago this month, The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion was founded on a simple yet revolutionary premise: that faith and LGBTQ+ identity are not only compatible, but that religious leaders have a moral imperative to stand against hatred and discrimination. Today, […]
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