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CLGS is proud to welcome Rabbi Yoel Kahn as our Interim Coordinator of the CLGS Jewish Roundtable. Welcome, Yoel! A Bay Area native, Rabbi Yoel Kahn graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and was ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, in 1985. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate […]
Why Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much? Professor Luis Menéndez-Antuña Thursday, 18 April 2024 | 4pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register in advance for this online 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 […]
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January 2024 Here we are at the start of a New Year! This is traditionally the time of year when people proclaim what they will do differently in their lives and announce what will be changed going forward. Some see this as a fresh start and an opportunity to become their best selves. I love […]
CLGS PRESS RELEASE 18 December 2023 In what is an initial – but nevertheless historically significant – step toward the celebration of committed relationships between persons of the same gender, today Pope Francis approved the blessing of couples in same-sex relationships. While today’s declaration does not overturn a 2021 ruling by the Vatican that had […]
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5 December 2023 Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow, a Pacific School of Religion alum, has been affiliated with CLGS (first as a seminarian and then as a staff member) for twenty years. For all of 2023 Roland has served as Managing Director while I have been on sabbatical from PSR. The staff members and faculty of […]
At The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion, we join with the World Health Organization (WHO) in honoring The Role of Communities in Driving Progress towards Ending AIDS on this World AIDS Day 2023, and we affirm the rights of all people to equitable access to health care so that everyone might live […]