LGBTQ Spirituality

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Talmudic Reflections on Gender Diversity with Dr. Max Strassfeld and Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman | A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

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Click HERE for a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event! How does Judaism look when we center nonbinary narratives, rather than treat them as anomalies? How do gender taxonomies represent complex rabbinic ideas about culture, practice and Jewish law? Is it possible to reclaim these texts in a liberatory way? Max Strassfeld […]

One More Mountain to Climb: The Past, Present, and Future of LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent

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Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS African American Roundtable Event! In this latest offering from the CLGS African American Roundtable, pioneers Wilhelmina Perry and Ronald Moore, co-founders of the LGBT Faith Leaders of African Descent share their experience of forming the organization, with a focus on the particular issues they have […]

I Came Here Seeking a Person: An Online CLGS Lavender Lunch with Bill Glenn

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Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS event! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch Bill Glenn reads from – and comments upon – his recently-published book I Came Here Seeking a Person (Paulist Press, 2022). This book is a spiritually-focused memoir: from Bill’s childhood in a Midwestern Irish Catholic family in the 50’s and 60’s; through […]

Queering Purim with Rabbi Denise Eger. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

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Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! Rabbi Denise Eger’s phenomenal CLGS Jewish Queeries Series presentation a few months ago on Queering Hanukah generated so much positive feedback that she has agreed to present a mini-series on queering Purim, Pesach, and Shavuot. In this, the first lecture/discussion in […]

Queer Autobiography: We Were Gender Fluid Before We Even Knew What It Was: An Online CLGS Lavender Lunch with Dwayne Ratleff and William Martin

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Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch authors Dwayne Ratleff and William Martin read from their autobiographical novels Dancing To The Lyrics and The Runaway Bus. In addition, these seasoned authors reflect upon – and dialogue about – the importance of sharing stories from their […]

Professor Julia Watts Belser: Queer Crip Revelation: Disability Dance, Jewish Text, and the Sacred Potency of Difference | The 13th Annual | 2022 CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture

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Julia Watts Belser, a white Jewish woman with curly brown hair, sits happily in her wheelchair in front of a pink flowering bush. She's wearing a patterned red blazer and red kippah (beret) to match.

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lecture! Queer Crip Revelation: Disability Dance, Jewish Text, and the Sacred Potency of Difference with Professor Julia Watts Belser The 13th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Recorded on 20 October 2022 In this CLGS lecture, Professor Julia Watts Belser probes the embodied ethics and spiritual […]

Sal, Luz, y Azúcar: Africana Queer Christopoetics of Matthew 5 in Afrocubanidad with Rev. Dr. Eric A. Thomas. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation

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Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS event! In this CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation Rev. Dr. Eric Thomas a queer Afro-Latinx imagines a decolonial vision for Jesus’ instruction to be(come) salt, light, and sugar in The Gospel of Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount. Reverend Dr. Eric A. Thomas is a scholar, […]