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

The Interfaith Queery: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Tahil Sharma

12 March 2022

Click here to view a video recording of this online CLGS Lavender Lunch! The intersection of faith and spirituality with gender and sexuality provides both a history of trauma and a precedent for inclusion. In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch, Tahil Sharma explores the ways that the current interfaith movement makes it possible for religious and […]

Gender: A Spectrum or an Angle of Deviation? with Fran Benjamin and Monique Cadle. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

03 March 2022 by Fran Benjamin, Monique Cadle

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! In this online CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event, Fran Benjamin (he/she/they) and Monique Cadle (she/her) of Good Works Consulting host a conversation on gender, diversity and queerness, and their relationship to art, business, spirituality – and to their lives. Fran, a queer, […]

The Future Church for LGBTQ+ People and Their Allies: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Benjamin Brenkert

24 February 2022 by Benjamin Brenkert

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch, Benjamin Brenkert reflects on the future church for LGBTQ+ People and their allies. As a former Jesuit, he proposes the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a means for people of faith to discern membership in churches […]

Open Tents and Open Hearts: Jews and Polyamory with Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, Rae Antonoff, MAJE, and Rabbi Erik Uriarte. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

20 February 2022

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! Although Jews have been practicing polyamory since the days of Hagar, Sarah, and Abraham, the practice is a cultural taboo among contemporary mainstream Jews. This is mainly due to legitimate concerns about male privilege and women’s rights. However, a new generation of queer feminist Jews […]

Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Grace Surdovel, IHM, and Co-Authors

18 February 2022

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this Lavender Lunch, Roman Catholic Sisters Grace Surdovel, IHM, Sue Becker, RDC, and Jeanne Christensen, RSM, discuss their recently-published anthology Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious (New Ways Ministry, 2021). In telling their stories of self discovery and acceptance, these […]

Catching Up with Nicole Garcia. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation

23 January 2022 by Nicole Garcia

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation! In this online Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation, sponsored by The CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad, Nicole Garcia talks about her experiences as an ordained pastor in the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), including her decision to resign her call in […]

Finding Your True Self: Musings of a Black Bisexual Jew with Chaim Ezra Harrison. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

14 January 2022 by Chaim Ezra Harrison

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! This online CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event focuses on “facets of my life growing up in – and very slowly opening – the closet,” writes Chaim Ezra Harrison. In this recorded event Chaim explores discovering Judaism, navigating his Black/biracial identity, and how […]