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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.

Pacific School of Religion (PSR), a multi-denominational seminary committed to equipping spiritually formed, theologically rooted leaders for social transformation, 

Please come enjoy, contemplate, and experience the interactions of this exciting collaborative exhibit. Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang will contribute pieces from their collection, which bring attention to the problem of plastic pollution through colorful and sensitive artwork created from these plastic remnants. The Langs will also work with Badè Museum curators to explore & select pieces for display from the Museum's Iron Age Tell en-Nasbeh collection, from which we we have a legacy of pottery sherds and ceramic figurines.

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.

Monday, April 13, 6PM Reception, 7PM Lecture

“Thinking Through De-Colonization: Un-Reforming Islam and Contesting Eurocentric Epistemic Structures.”  Tolson Lecture by Dr. Hatem Bazian.  Co-sponsored by the Center for Islamic Studies.  Location: Badé Museum, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Ave., Berkeley, CA 94709.

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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