CLGS: Jews and Polyamory. Open Tents and Open Hearts with Rabbi Nikki DeBlosi, Rae Antonoff, MAJE, and Rabbi Erik Uriarte. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
Click here to join this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event via Zoom! 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 are dramatically…
2022 Spring Orientation
PSR_2022_Spring Orientation Schedule This year’s event will be virtual. Zoom links for each day are provided in the link.
CLGS: Finding Your True Self: Musings of a Black Bisexual Jew with Chaim Ezra Harrison. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
Join CLGS as Chaim Ezra Harrison explores discovering Judaism, navigating his Black/biracial identity, and how his identities intersect to make him who he is. Chaim’s goal in telling his story is to help you find yours, whatever the complexities of your own identity.
CLGS: Catching Up with Nicole Garcia. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation
Join us as we discuss what lies ahead for Rev. Nicole Garcia in the church, the Latine and LGBTQ+ communities, and in her counseling endeavors.
CLGS: Out in the Pulpit: The Lived Experience of Lesbian Clergy in Four Protestant Mainline Denominations. A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Rev. Pamela Pater-Ennis
Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this online Lavender Lunch, Dr. Pater-Ennis discusses her 2019 book Out in the Pulpit: The Lived Experiences of Lesbian Clergy in Four Protestant Mainline Denomination, which grew out of a dissertation project that included interviews with thirteen lesbian clergy members. These women were interviewed about their early…
CLGS: The Future Church for LGBTQ+ People and Their Allies: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Benjamin Brenkert
Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this 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 that thwart their personal and group flourishing….
CLGS: Unoma Azuah: “Love Is My Sanctuary.” A CLGS Lavender Lunch
Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this CLGS Lavender Lunch Unoma Azuah explores a variety of themes related to her experiences as an African, lesbian immigrant to the United States. She will also share excerpts from her recently-published memoir, Embracing My Shadow: Growing up Lesbian in Nigeria, and discuss some of the challenges that she…
CLGS: 15th Annual Boswell Lecture: Professor Rolf Nolasco on “Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing.”
Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing with Professor Rolf Nolasco The 15th Annual 2022 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! Tagging queer bodies as intrinsically disordered, unholy, and perverse collides with the intimate knowing that this body, this queer flesh with all its erotic desires—bodily, psychological, and social—is good. Pronounced as good, indeed very good,…
CLGS: Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious. A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Grace Surdovel, IHM
Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this Lavender Lunch, Roman Catholic Sisters Grace Surdovel, IHM, Sue Becker, RDC, Jeanne Christensen, RSM, and Mary Kay Dobrovolny, RSM, discuss their recently-published anthology Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious (New Ways Ministry, 2021). Join these women as they discuss their lives and this anthology, which contains essays…
CLGS: Tahil Sharma: The Interfaith Queery. A CLGS Lavender Lunch
Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! The intersection of faith and spirituality with gender and sexuality provides both a history of trauma and a precedent for inclusion. The presentation will explore the ways that the current interfaith movement makes it possible for religious and interfaith spaces to be intersectional and relevant for achieving…