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A Queer Easter Sunday: A Reflection by Dr. Ish Ruíz

by CLGS

On Easter Sunday 2025, I went to Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco’s Castro gayborhood. I walked through boisterous streets—I remember it was on 4/20, so the smell of weed was already in the air—and into a packed church. The liturgy was beautiful: flowers, music, incense, bodies gathered. The homily was […]

Love in the Seat of Empire: Black Diasporic Survival as a Radical Practice | A Reflection by Rev. Terence Mayo

by Bernard Schlager

7 February 2026 Under U.S. fascist rule, Black love is often described as a personal ethic of self-care, chosen family, and community resilience. But it is also transnational: a radical, border-crossing practice that insists we are bound to one another across oceans, languages, and histories of extraction. Black love becomes the discipline of seeing, hearing, […]

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 […]