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CLGS offers online Microcertificate in Catholic LGBTQ+ Ministry

18 December 2025 by CLGS

Click here to register for this online CLGS microcertificate program! CLGS is proud to announce our first online Microcertificate in Catholic LGBTQ+ Ministry! Taught by Pacific School of Religion Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, this microcertificate provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Catholic LGBTQ+ ministry by weaving together Scripture, Tradition, theology, ethics, and pastoral practice. […]

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09 December 2025 by Bernard Schlager

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Remembering Advent and World AIDS Day: Holding Tension and Hope | A Meditation on Black Faith, HIV/AIDS, and Sacred Remembrance by Rev. Terence Mayo

07 December 2025 by CLGS

7 December 2025 Advent is the church’s ancient practice of living inside holy tension, presence and absence, hope and dread, peace and turmoil, joy and suffering. To take up Advent is to stand with our Black ancestors in a paradoxical posture: waiting for someone who has already arrived, and celebrating a reality that has not […]

The 19th Annual | 2026 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture: Bishop Tonyia Rawls Speaks on: MELANIN: The Good… The Bad… and the Sacred

01 December 2025 by Bernard Schlager

MELANIN: The Good…The Bad…and the Sacred Bishop Tonyia Rawls Thursday, 16 April 2026 | 4pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! We are living in a day and age where the amount of God-given melanin in one’s skin can literally determine what jobs you have access to, what […]

Building Your TDOR Toolkit with The CLGS Transgender Roundtable

14 November 2025 by CLGS

Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this workshop, we explore ways to honor Trans Day of Remembrance in congregations and community organizations. The workshop leaders share ideas from a variety of faith-based and secular settings, and participants shared questions and ideas from their own faith and community contexts. Workshop Leaders […]

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10 November 2025 by CLGS

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A Queer Spirituality for the Wilderness by Ish Ruiz

09 November 2025 by Bernard Schlager

9 November 2025 When I reflect on the Trump era, what comes up for me is not so much the policies, but the feeling – that cold, anxious pulse of knowing that people like me are being targeted as unacceptable threats. Christian theology has served as justification for this scapegoating. For queer Christians, this era […]

CLGS 2025-2026 Queering the Word ONLINE Preaching Workshops

03 November 2025 by CLGS

Join us for one — or more! — of our 2025-2026 online Queering the Word Preaching Workshops! CLGS is offering 1 CEU per workshop. Workshop #1. Advent Preaching | A CLGS Queering the Word Workshop with Revs. Lauren Bennett and Jakob Hero-Shaw Thursday, 6 November 2025 at 1pm (Pacific) | 4pm (Eastern) A new liturgical […]

The Latest CLGS Book: Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell (2025)

02 November 2025 by Bernard Schlager

31 May 2025 CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell. Edited by Bernard Schlager, Executive Director of the Center, this book contains 11 essays based upon lectures given in our annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture series. From the publisher, Routledge Press: […]

Don’t Tell Us It’ll Probably Be Fine | by Jakob Hero-Shaw

01 November 2025 by CLGS

5 October 2025 Your trans friends are scared. Our fears are fueled by new laws and by the uncertainty of what’s coming next. We see the risk of losing our health care. We live under restrictions in schools, in sports, and in restrooms. And when political leaders and organizations paint trans people as “dangerous,” it […]