CLGS: The Bible but Make It Kinky: A Queer Reading of Traumatic Bible Stories: A Lavender Lunch with Kendra Twenter
The Bible but Make It Kinky: A Queer Reading of Traumatic Bible Stories: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with PSR Alum Kendra Twenter
CLGS: “Where You Go I Will Go”: Same-Sex Marriage & Jewish Law with Rabbi Irwin Keller
In this online workshop, Rabbi Irwin Keller explores the possibility of uprooting the Jewish wedding language entirely and introducing the words of Ruth’s vow to Naomi: “Where you go, I will go…”
CLGS: Cristosal: Advancing LGBT+ Human Rights in Central America
Join the CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad in a conversation with staff members of Cristosal about their work advancing LGBT+ human rights in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador – known as the Northern Triangle of Central America.
CLGS: GenderQueering Hebrew with Rabbi Noa Sattath.
GenderQueering Hebrew with Rabbi Noa Sattath. An Online CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event!
CLGS: Queer Jews: A 20th Anniversary Symposium in Memory of David Shneer
20 year after the publication of the book “Queer Jews,” the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) is hosting a symposium in honor of the role the book played in re-imagining the American and global Jewish worlds, and in memory of co-editor David Schneer’s many gifts and contributions to queer Jewish life.
CLGS: LGBTQIA+ and Faith in Brazil with Revs. Arthur Cavalcante, Luiz Coelho, and Gustavo Gilson Oliveira. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation!
Join the CLGS Latinx Roundtable in a (tri-lingual) conversation with clergy persons from Brazil on the intersection of faith, religion and sexuality! Particular attention to pastoral and liturgical considerations. All contributed to the development of the First Congress of Faith Communities and LGBTI+ Communities: Ecumenical Dialogues for the Respect of Diversity in June of 2019. The CLGS Latinx Roundtable was a proud participant of this event in Brazil.
CLGS: Ọyasùúrù Ifáwárìnwa on “Sexuality, Gender, and Power in Traditional IFÁ Religion and Its Diasporic Renditions.” An ONLINE Lavender Lunch
Tuesday (11 May 2021): 12:15pm to 1:15pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here for a Zoom link for this event! In this Lavender Lunch Ọyasùúrù Ifáwárìnwa, an Iyanifa (an initiated IFA priest), discusses understandings of sexuality, gender, and play in Ifá, a Yoruba religion. Drawing upon the ancient and vibrant proverbs, poems, and stories of the Ifá tradition,…
CLGS: Chris Harrison: Finding Your True Self: Musings of a Black Bisexual Jew. An Online Jewish Queeries Series Event!
Thursday (29 April 2021): 1pm to 2:15pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here for a Zoom link for this event! In this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series presentation Chris Harrison will discuss facets of his life, including his experience of growing up in – and very slowly opening up – the closet. Chris will also discuss how he discovered Judaism, navigates his…
CLGS: Mel White: Clobber the Passages: Queer People and The Seven Deadly Biblical Verses. An ONLINE Lavender Lunch
Tuesday (27 April 2021): 12:15pm to 1:15pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here for a Zoom link for this event! For centuries, evangelicals who read the Bible have literally misused seven verses to convince the world that homosexuality is a sin and that homosexuals are sinners. Those verses have forced many LGBTQ+ persons to live their lives…
CLGS: Lama Rod Owens Speaks on “Love and Rage: The Path to Liberation” | The 14th Annual John E. Boswell Lecture
Love and Rage: The Path to Liberation with Lama Rod Owens | The 14th Annual | 2020 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture Thursday (15 April 2021): 6:30pm to 8:15pm (Pacific Time) | ONLINE Click here to register for this Lecture! In our present day, when a politics of anger infuses every institutional and cultural sphere, Lama Rod Owens, author of Love and…