CLGS provides a range of resources for the constituencies served by the Center in academic, faith, and activist communities.

The 16th Annual | 2023 CLGS Boswell Lecture: Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey: The Big Lie and Its Old Hatred

10 May 2023 by Pamela Lightsey

Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey offered the 16th Annual | 2023 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture: The Big Lie and Its Old Hatred Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey Click here to view a video recording of this online CLGS Lecture! American politics has long been a challenging system for its Black citizens. The fight to keep […]

Talmudic Reflections on Gender Diversity with Dr. Max Strassfeld and Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman | A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

06 May 2023 by Jane Litman, Max Strassfeld

Click HERE for a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event! How does Judaism look when we center nonbinary narratives, rather than treat them as anomalies? How do gender taxonomies represent complex rabbinic ideas about culture, practice and Jewish law? Is it possible to reclaim these texts in a liberatory way? Max Strassfeld […]

Queer AAPI Spiritual Movement Building in Real Time! A Conversation with Tahil Sharma | A CLGS AAPI Roundtable Event

06 May 2023 by Maij Vu Mai, Tahil Sharma

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS AAPI Roundtable Event! Maij Vu Mai (they/he), Coordinator of the CLGS AAPIRT Roundtable, and guest speaker/comrade Tahil Sharma (he/him) join in conversation on how Queer AAPI folks can engage in and cultivate radical queer AAPI spiritual movement building spaces in real time! Tahil Sharma is an […]

Called to This: Voices of Trans and Nonbinary Students Preparing for Religious Leadership | A CLGS Transgender Roundtable Event

18 April 2023

Click HERE to view a video recording of this CLGS Transgender Roundtable event! With today’s increasingly hostile attitude toward trans and nonbinary people, it is vital that we lift up the voices of those who are doing the work of trans liberation and religious leadership. In this CLGS conversation, the students of our Trans Seminarian […]

Queering Passover with Rabbi Denise Eger. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

03 April 2023 by Denise Eger

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event! Join Rabbi Denise Eger as she continues her series of taking a look at Jewish holidays and traditions through a queer lens. CLGS’ Jewish Queeries Series is proud to present “Queering Passover.” Rabbi Denise L. Eger (she/her) is the founding Senior Rabbi of Congregation […]

One More Mountain to Climb: The Past, Present, and Future of LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent

22 March 2023 by Ronald Moore, Wilhelmina Perry

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS African American Roundtable Event! In this latest offering from the CLGS African American Roundtable, pioneers Wilhelmina Perry and Ronald Moore, co-founders of the LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent share their experience of forming the organization, with a focus on the particular issues they have […]

I Came Here Seeking a Person: An Online CLGS Lavender Lunch with Bill Glenn

20 March 2023 by Bill Glenn

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS event! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch Bill Glenn reads from – and comments upon – his recently-published book I Came Here Seeking a Person (Paulist Press, 2022). This book is a spiritually-focused memoir: from Bill’s childhood in a Midwestern Irish Catholic family in the 50’s and 60’s; through […]