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52 Ways to Expand Your Welcome to LGBTQ+ People and Our Families #1: Our 25th Anniversary Edition!

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5 September 2025 Welcome to the fifth edition of our popular weekly blog on 52 Ways to Expand Your Welcome to LGBTQ+ People and Our Families! Each week during our Anniversary Year of 2025-2026 we will post suggestions on how your faith community can become more welcoming to – and inclusive of – LGBTQ+ People […]

This Month in Queer Religious History | September: The Founding of DignityUSA

01 September 2025

1 September 2025 This Month in Queer Religious History* The Founding of DignityUSA (September 1969) In early 1969, a year that would see the Stonewall uprising in New York City galvanize the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, an Augustinian priest in San Diego was quietly planting seeds for what would become one of the most enduring […]

The 14th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture: Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel

21 August 2025 by Rebecca Voelkel

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Sacred Reckonings with the Doctrine of Discovery’s Betrayal: What Queerness Teaches Us About Strategies of Resistance, Embodied Joy, and Acts of Reparation with Rev. Dr. Rebecca Voelkel The 14th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Recorded on Thursday, 17 October 2024 Rev. […]

A Call to Holy Troublemaking with Rev. Redeem Robinson | A CLGS African American Roundtable Event

15 August 2025 by Redeem Robinson

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS event! This CLGS African American Roundtable workshop explored the theological and practical foundations of holy resistance to systems of oppression. Participants learned how and why people of faith need to challenge empire, and we considered various tools to organize in our communities in order to abolish […]

Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (Rituals to Move you Through Transitions) with the CLGS Trans Religious Leadership Cohort

29 July 2025 by Jakob Hero-Shaw, Trans Religious Leadership Cohort

Click here for a link to a video recording of this CLGS Transgender Roundtable event! In this workshop, members of the Trans Religious Leadership Cohort explored how rituals can be sources of collective and individual power, especially in times of transition. In addition, We Cohort members drew upon the deep histories of queer communities adeptly creating […]

Ethics of Queer Holiness: Envisioning Queer Religiosity with the Core Meanings of Holiness with Rev. Dr. June Hee Yoon | A CLGS Lavender Lunch

19 July 2025 by June Hee Yoon

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this CLGS Lavender Lunch, Rev. Dr. June Hee Yoon begins with the long-standing question within Christian traditions: “Can queer be holy?” This short question has taken a long time to be answered in theological discussions in various Christian denominations. The United Methodist Church […]

Mestizaje Confronts #AmericanFacism with Jorge Aquino, PhD | A CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event

07 July 2025 by Jorge Aquino

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event! The restoration of Donald Trump to the presidency raises critical issues for Latinx people in the US. Where do anti-racist, sex-positive, Latinx people go from here? In this CLGS Latinx Roundtable event, Professor Jorge Aquino (University of San Francisco) proposes a theo-politics response […]