CLGS | The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry

CLGS Jewish Queeries and the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies present:

Listening to the Heart: What Jewish Texts Say about Reparations

Please join us for a special talk with Abby Stein titled "From Rabbi to Trans Activist."

Join the GTU community as we gather for prayer, support, and solidarity in honoring the victims of the Orlando shooting.

Where: Pacific School of Religion, Chapel of the Great Commission, 1798 Scenic Ave. Berkeley

When: Monday, June 13, 2016, 4:00 pm 

April 22-23 | City of Refuge, UCC, Oakland, CA
CLGS’ African-American Roundtable and Many Voices are pleased to host the fifth Souls A’ Fire Conference focused on the next generation of Black Queer Theology. We are continuing the rich tradition of encouraging our young scholars in their current work as well as learning from seasoned theologians and preachers as they explore the intersections of African-American culture, the church and LGBTQ identity.

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry’s Ninth Annual Boswell Lecture
April 21, 2016   6:30pm Lecture | Reception to Follow

Pacific School of Religion, Chapel
1798 Scenic Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709

The Eighth Annual Multi-Faith Transgender Summit will bring together religious activists, leaders, students, and practitioners from across a variety of faith traditions to explore intersectionalities of religion and trans* identities. This 3-day event will include workshops, discussion groups, and academic presentations. The conference will feature a free & open to the public event: Community Action Forum: Confronting Violence Against Transgender Communities.

Join CLGS at Pacific School of Religion for the Sixth Annual Georgia Harkness Lecture, delivered by Dr. Melissa M Wilcox. This lecture will explore some of the ways in which the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a non-religious order of self-proclaimed “twenty-first century queer nuns”, trouble religion and gender through their efforts to fulfill their mission of promulgating universal joy and expiating stigmatic guilt. Melissa M. Wilcox is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies at Whitman College.

The BlackLivesMatter class at the Graduate Theological Union, sponsored by the American Baptist Seminary of the West, Pacific School of Religion & the Center for Social and Spiritual Transformation, invites the community to join them for a special class session. Ms Alicia Garza, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, The Reverend Traci Blackman, UCC Pastor in Ferguson, MO, as well as The Reverend Michael McBride, PICO, Lifelines to Healing Campaign, will be joining us for a discussion of theological perspectives and spiritual resources for direct action and radical social change.

Justin Tannis, Managing Director of the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies in Religion & Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion, will lead an examination of three HIV+ artists, Juan Gonzalez, Albert Winn, and David Wojnarowicz and the ways in which their work embodies the efforts to make the suffering of those impacted by HIV/AIDS visible.  Doug Adams Gallery, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA 

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