Click here for a Zoom link for this online CLGS event! In this online Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation, sponsored by The CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad, Nicole Garcia talks about her experiences as an ordained pastor in the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), including her decision to resign her call in July of 2021.  A […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this Lavender Lunch, Roman Catholic Sisters Grace Surdovel, IHM, Sue Becker, RDC, Jeanne Christensen, RSM, and Mary Kay Dobrovolny, RSM, discuss their recently-published anthology Love Tenderly: Sacred Stories of Lesbian and Queer Religious  (New Ways Ministry, 2021). Join these women as they discuss their lives […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this Lavender Lunch, Benjamin Brenkert reflects on the future church for LGBTQ+ People and their allies.  As a former Jesuit, he proposes the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a means for people of faith to discern membership in churches that thwart their personal and […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! The intersection of faith and spirituality with gender and sexuality provides both a history of trauma and a precedent for inclusion. The presentation will explore the ways that the current interfaith movement makes it possible for religious and interfaith spaces to be intersectional and relevant for […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this online Lavender Lunch, Dr. Pater-Ennis discusses her 2019 book Out in the Pulpit: The Lived Experiences of Lesbian Clergy in Four Protestant Mainline Denomination, which grew out of a dissertation project that included interviews with thirteen lesbian clergy  members.  These women were interviewed […]

Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing with Professor Rolf Nolasco The 15th Annual 2022 CLGS John E. Boswell ONLINE Lecture Click here to register in advance for this online lecture! Tagging queer bodies as intrinsically disordered, unholy, and perverse collides with the intimate knowing that this body, this queer flesh with all its erotic desires—bodily, psychological, and social—is […]

Click here to join this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this CLGS Lavender Lunch Unoma Azuah explores a variety of themes related to her experiences as an African, lesbian immigrant to the United States.  She will also share excerpts from her recently-published memoir, Embracing My Shadow: Growing up Lesbian in Nigeria, and discuss some of […]