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

Is Your Faith Community Safe for Trans Folks? An ONLINE CLGS Lavender Lunch with our Trans* Seminarians Leadership Cohort

07 April 2022

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online panel discussion we explore ways that faith communities can become safer spaces for trans and nonbinary congregants, participants, and leaders. Members of our Trans Seminarian Cohort – and other trans and nonbinary panelists – will discuss some of the successes and pitfalls […]

Latinx, LGBTQ+, and Faith Communities: An Inclusive Experience with Ana Ester, André Musskopf, and Cris Serra. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation

12 March 2022 by Ana Ester, André Musskopf, Cris Serra

Click here to watch a video recording of this CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation! In this online CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation, sponsored by The CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad, the Rev. Dr. Ana Ester, Dr. André Musskopf, and Cris Serra, MA, talk about their experiences as Brazilian LGBTQI+ Christians and their research on the […]

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 […]