Click here to join this online CLGS Event via Zoom! Recent years have shown alarming statistics that should compel Christian communities to minister to queer youth with special care. Given the polarization in our country over LGBTQ+ inclusion, the reported experience of queer youth’s upbringing, and the harmful rhetoric often promulgated by religious groups, it […]

Click here for a Zoom link for this online CLGS event! Lenia Pacheco Salas (she/her/ella) was born in Cuba and came to the USA with a religious catholic order, the Sister Missionaries of Charity of Mother Theresa of Calcutta (a contemplative branch of the order). After seven years in the convent, Lenia realized that the convent wasn’t […]

Click here to join this online CLGS event via Zoom! Join Rev. Cedric Harmon, Rev. Gwen Thomas, and Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow for an intimate conversation about their work as organizers of the CLGS Souls A’Fire conferences.  The first Souls A’Fire conference took place in 2003 with Dr. Johari Jobir, the first Coordinator of the […]

Click here to join this online CLGS Event via Zoom! 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; […]

Click here to join this online CLGS event via Zoom! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch, Dr. Stephanie Dkyes provides an introduction to what it means to be transgender, with an emphasis on current anti – transgender legislation. Dr. Dykes then describes the pivotal role played by her own experiences of reconciling her faith as […]

The Big Lie and Its Old Hatred with Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey The 16th Annual 2023 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! American politics has long been a challenging system for its Black citizens. The fight to keep Black people from voting is a long and […]