CLGS: Gender: A Spectrum or an Angle of Deviation? with Fran Benjamin and Monique Cadle. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event
Click here to join this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event via Zoom! In this online CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event, Fran Benjamin (he/she/they) and Monique Cadle (she/her) of Good Works Consulting will host a chat on gender, diversity and queerness, and their relationship to art, business, spirituality, and to their lives. Fran, a queer, nonbinary, Jewish drag queen and consultant and Mo, a queer, first generation,…
CLGS: Latinx, LGBTQ+, and Faith Communities: An Inclusive Experience with Ana Ester, André Musskopf, and Cris Serra. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation
In this online CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation, Rev. Dr. Ana Ester, Dr. André Musskopf, and Cris Serra talk about their experiences as Brazilian LGBTQI+ Christians and their research on the topic. They invite us to know more about church and inclusion in Latin America, considering its history, its possibilities of inclusion in the evangelical and the Catholic contexts.
CLGS: Exploring Seminary Life through Queer Latinx Eyes with Omar Rodriguez De la O. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation
In this CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation, sponsored by The CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad, Omar Rodriguez De la O, currently a second year seminarian at Virginia Theological School, explores seminary life from his own Queer Latinx perspective.
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…
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,…