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

Transitioning to Inclusion: A Guide to Welcoming Transgender Children and Their Families in Your Community of Faith

02 May 2024 by Kelsey Pacha

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This resource was written by Kelsey Pacha for CLGS, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Pacific School of Religion, and made possible by a grant from the Atkinson Foundation. Through their generosity, CLGS has worked with congregations, parents, and religious educators in San Mateo County and beyond to create […]

God of the Intersections: Latinx Perspectives on Ministry with Rhina Ramos, Yadi Martínez-Reyna, and RJ Robles | An Online CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation

01 May 2024 by Rev. Rhina Ramos, Rev. RJ Robles, Rev. Yadi Martínez-Reyna

Click here to view 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, Revs. Rhina Ramos, Yadi Martínez-Reyna, and RJ Robles led us in a conversation in which we explored a borderless, genderless God, a God of vastness […]

Sublime Divinations, Issue 3: Queer AAPI Elemental Magic Zine Release & Public Reading: An Online CLGS Sacred Texts Workshop with Maij Mai

25 April 2024 by Maij Vu Mai

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS AAPI Workshop! Last semester, AAPIRT Coordinator Maij Vu Mai (they/he) offered an intimate storytelling workshop in which they shared personal archival research of their own vulnerable connections and learnings with Queer AAPI Elemental Magic through their father’s legacy of mystic tending to bonsai trees, koi fishponds, […]

Queering the Passover Seder | A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

22 April 2024 by Ariel Tovlev, Reuben Zellman, Yoel Kahn

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queries Series event! Passover celebrates the “Exodus/Coming Out from Egypt” and our Passover Seder liturgy declares: “In every generation, each person should see themselves as if they themselves had come out..:” In this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event we explored the following questions: How can […]

The 17th Annual | 2024 CLGS Boswell Lecture: Professor Luis Menéndez-Antuña Speaks onWhy Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much?

19 April 2024 by Luis Menéndez-Antuña

Why Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much? Professor Luis Menéndez-Antuña Or Click here for a video recording of this CLGS John E. Boswell 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 arrangements outside of heterosexual monogamous marriage. […]

Discernment for Queer Christians with Kate Davoli | A CLGS Lavender Lunch Workshop

10 April 2024 by Kate Davoli

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! Should I say yes to that offer? What does God want for my life? What am I supposed to be doing??!? Discernment – figuring out what to to next – is hard to begin with, but when we hope that there’s also a God […]

Oracles of Our Times: Divining at the Intersections of Disability, Queerness, and Spirituality: An Online CLGS CSR Workshop with Maij Mai

21 March 2024 by Maij Vu Mai

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS AAAPI Roundtable/CSR Workshop via Zoom! “Disability is a generative force. It’s magic. It really teaches me to be more thoughtful and aware of myself and my body, my body-mind in community. And as Alice Wong has put it so beautifully- disabled people are oracles.” (Alex Locust, Glamputee […]