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19 December 2023 Dear Friends: Happy Holidays from CLGS, the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion at Pacific School of Religion! As we bring this year to a close, I am proud to report that our high-quality and innovative programs continue to make a real difference in the lives of LGBTQ people, our families, and our faith communities. Here […]
CLGS PRESS RELEASE 18 December 2023 In what is an initial – but nevertheless historically significant – step toward the celebration of committed relationships between persons of the same gender, today Pope Francis approved the blessing of couples in same-sex relationships. While today’s declaration does not overturn a 2021 ruling by the Vatican that had […]
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5 December 2023 Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow, a Pacific School of Religion alum, has been affiliated with CLGS (first as a seminarian and then as a staff member) for twenty years. For all of 2023 Roland has served as Managing Director while I have been on sabbatical from PSR. The staff members and faculty of […]
From The Office of Communications at Pacific School of Religion Since its founding in 2000, the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion (PSR) has served LGBTQ+ people, families, and faith communities through advocacy, community-building, education, and research. As the United States’ first seminary-based LGBTQ+ center, CLGS is […]
Why Christians Must Speak Out Against Christian Nationalism In this op-ed piece PSR President Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy writes that “Christian Nationalism, and the ideologies that have fueled it from the very founding of our nation, have left a centuries-long trail of devastation that continues to this day. Through an alliance with White supremacy, it […]