Click here to register in advance for this ONLINE lecture The Hopes and Fears of All the World Are Met in Thee: Identity’s Liberating Power with Bishop Karen Oliveto The 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 4pm (Pacific Time) This will be an ONLINE Lecture Join the Center for LGBTQ […]

Click here to join this online CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! Drawing on years of experience speaking on topics at the intersection of music, queer history, and activism, Rev. Jim Mitulski and musicologist Thomas Kurtz will explore how the relationship between music and spirituality served as a voice for social change among queer communities that […]

Click here to join this online CLGS event via Zoom! A new liturgical year starts with Advent, a time of watching, waiting, and preparing our hearts for justice and love! As we enter Year A of the Lectionary, this CLGS Queering the Word preaching workshop will prepare you for queering Advent and set the foundation […]

Click here to join this online CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! We invite you to join us for this CLGS Lavender Lunch, which will feature a distinguished panel of leaders from various LGBTQ+ ministry organizations, including Outreach, New Ways Ministry, Dignity USA, and the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative LGBT Initiative. Panelists will offer reflections on […]

Click here to join this online CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! Queer Indigenous/Two Spirit life has been in a biopolitical war of survival with the violent encroachment of heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism on our lands, spiritual practices, family formations, and education. How do we strive for thrival in times of survival? Is this even a […]

Click here to join this online CLGS event via Zoom! Lent is perhaps the queerest season of the liturgical year. The richness and complications of this liturgical season make it a fertile ground for exploring queer exegetical opportunities and community discussion. A queering of Lent can offer us many new ways to explore our faith […]

Click here to join this online CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! Join us for a conversation with some of the authors whose writings are featured in the new book Trans Biblical: New Approaches to Interpretation and Embodiment in Scripture  (Presbyterian Publishing, 2025). As biblical scholar Ken Stone has written, this book “opens up a number […]

Click here to join this online CLGS event via Zoom! Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals are deeply sacred life events (for individuals, families, and faith communities), and these celebrations of initiation, commitment, and commemoration call for thoughtful and creative preaching. In this CLGS Queering the Word preaching workshop, we explore how scripture can inform and enrich […]

Click here to join this online CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! Join us for a special CLGS Lavender Lunch as we kick off the spirit and vision of the upcoming CLGS Souls A’ Fire 2026 Conference with an intimate and insightful conversation between the event’s co-conveners. This pre-conference gathering offers a unique opportunity to hear […]

Click here to join this online CLGS event via Zoom! Given the many times during the course of a year that we mark commemorations and celebrations that are important to our LGBTQ+ communities, let us embrace these opportunities to preach with queer wisdom and insight. In this workshop, we delve into aspects of the richness […]