CLGS

During the 2009 Earl Lectures and Leadership Conference at Pacific School of Religion, CLGS was pleased to host a luncheon and welcomed the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel as the speaker. Rev. Voelkel, ...

Relationships, not Policies Make Welcoming Churches [PDF]

The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund is committed to supporting projects that affirm the dignity and equality of diverse populations in the Bay Area. As part of our work to eliminate discrimination against lesbians, gay men and their families we have focused resources to support the freedom to marry, end violence against gay youth, provide legal protections in employment, housing and public services, and to promote full participation in communities of faith.

Holy Ferment: Queer Philosophical Destabilizations and the
Discourse on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Lives in Christian Institutions [PDF]

A pastor shares his thoughts about inclusivity and arrogance in a sermon to his Reconciling Congregation. Perhaps your welcoming church is struggling with the same issue.—Editor (Open ...

In the spring of 1994, my husband Tom and I decided to become therapeutic foster care providers. We had just finished graduate school in rehabilitation counseling. One Sunday, skimming the paper for employment opportunities, I saw an ad that read something like this:

Foster parents needed to provide in–home care to a young man with multiple disabilities. This person will be facing a series of surgeries and will need assistance with independent living skills...