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Remembering Advent and World AIDS Day: Holding Tension and Hope | A Meditation on Black Faith, HIV/AIDS, and Sacred Remembrance by Rev. Terence Mayo

by CLGS

7 December 2025 Advent is the church’s ancient practice of living inside holy tension, presence and absence, hope and dread, peace and turmoil, joy and suffering. To take up Advent is to stand with our Black ancestors in a paradoxical posture: waiting for someone who has already arrived, and celebrating a reality that has not […]

Building Your TDOR Toolkit with The CLGS Transgender Roundtable

by CLGS

Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this workshop, we explore ways to honor Trans Day of Remembrance in congregations and community organizations. The workshop leaders share ideas from a variety of faith-based and secular settings, and participants shared questions and ideas from their own faith and community contexts. Workshop Leaders […]

A Queer Spirituality for the Wilderness by Ish Ruiz

by Bernard Schlager

9 November 2025 When I reflect on the Trump era, what comes up for me is not so much the policies, but the feeling – that cold, anxious pulse of knowing that people like me are being targeted as unacceptable threats. Christian theology has served as justification for this scapegoating. For queer Christians, this era […]

Don’t Tell Us It’ll Probably Be Fine | by Jakob Hero-Shaw

by CLGS

5 October 2025 Your trans friends are scared. Our fears are fueled by new laws and by the uncertainty of what’s coming next. We see the risk of losing our health care. We live under restrictions in schools, in sports, and in restrooms. And when political leaders and organizations paint trans people as “dangerous,” it […]

Faith as Liberation: CLGS at 25 Years of Life-Saving Work… and Counting!

by Bernard Schlager

1 September 2025 Twenty-five years ago this month, The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion was founded on a simple yet revolutionary premise: that faith and LGBTQ+ identity are not only compatible, but that religious leaders have a moral imperative to stand against hatred and discrimination. Today, […]