CLGS: Transkeit: Expanding Gender for Jews and Allies: A Pre-Publication Preview with Jane Rachel Litman and Jakob Hero-Shaw, editors. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
The CLGS book “Transkeit” is an extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies that explores cutting edge ideas about gender through the lenses of tradition, art, autobiography, and solidarity.
CLGS: Conservative Impulses: Queers, Interfaith Couples, and Jewish Continuity with Professor Samira K. Mehta. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
Click here to join this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event via Zoom! In the final three decades of the twentieth century, Liberal American Judaism struggled to address two new challenges to longstanding conceptions of the Jewish family: interfaith marriage and same-gender relationships. The trajectories of these two issues raises the question: if non-Orthodox Jewish communities are more formally accepting of same-sex…
PSR Board Business Meeting
The agenda and materials have been sent by email. We invite faculty, staff, and students who would like to observe the meeting to join us by Zoom at the link provided in email. We are limiting in-person participation to trustees and representatives, in order to keep occupancy of the meeting room to Covid-safe levels.
CLGS: Building Your TDOR Toolkit with The CLGS Transgender Roundtable
In this workshop, we will explore ways to honor Trans Day of Remembrance in congregations and community organizations. The workshop leaders will share ideas from a variety of faith-based and secular settings, participants are encouraged to bring questions and ideas from your own faith and community contexts.
CLGS: The Ark: Queer Art for Survival with Nessa Norich. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
Join us as writer and director Nessa Norich explores “The Ark,” an intimate video that includes diaries of queer people and our friends made in quarantine, highlighting the isolation, longing, and loss wrought by the pandemic. This short film builds on the story of Noach and the flood to examine the complexity of our survival.
CLGS: Drag and Spirituality: A Lavender Lunch with John Brett, Ms. Penny Cost, Flamy Grant, and Bonnie Violet
Join CLGS as we engage with drag ministers, chaplains, and grassroots spiritual practitioners as they share about their ministries of healing and liberation in Christian & post-Christian contexts.
CLGS: Bishop Megan Rohrer, CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecturer!
Click here to register for this ONLINE Lecture and follow-up discussion which will be offered via Zoom! Trans Theology Without Apology: Using Art and Historical Exegesis to Celebrate Trans Figuration and the Trans Aesthetic in the Bible with Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer The 12th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture ONLINE on Thursday, 14 October 2021, at 6:30pm | Pacific…
CLGS: The Role of Latinx Faith Communities in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care with Carolina Ramos: A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation
Join us as we explore CLGS’ new LGBTQ+ Latinx Health Guide on HIV/AIDS for Faith Communities with Carolina Ramos!
CLGS: “Post-Gay”: How Queer Values Benefit All People with Rabbi Joshua Lesser. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
Click here for a Zoom link for this online CLGS event! Ten years ago, a prominent Jewish Gay historian wrote an article in a major Jewish newspaper about the “dim” future of LGBT synagogues. As a sign of their “demise,” Congregation Bet Haverim in Atlanta was called a “Post-Gay Synagogue.” When the congregation’s rabbi, Joshua Lesser, read the…
CLGS: Queering Wesley, Queering the Church: A Lavender Lunch with Keegan Osinski
Click here for a Zoom link for this online CLGS event! In this Lavender Lunch theologian and librarian Keegan Osinski discusses her recent book, Queering Wesley, Queering the Church, (Cascade Books, 2021) and its presentation of a prototype for thinking about Wesleyan holiness as an expansive openness to the love and grace of God in queer Christian lives rather than…