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5 December 2023 Rev. Dr. Roland Stringfellow, a Pacific School of Religion alum, has been affiliated with CLGS (first as a seminarian and then as a staff member) for twenty years. For all of 2023 Roland has served as Managing Director while I have been on sabbatical from PSR. The staff members and faculty of […]
At The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion, we join with the World Health Organization (WHO) in honoring The Role of Communities in Driving Progress towards Ending AIDS on this World AIDS Day 2023, and we affirm the rights of all people to equitable access to health care so that everyone might live […]
From The Office of Communications at Pacific School of Religion Since its founding in 2000, the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion (PSR) has served LGBTQ+ people, families, and faith communities through advocacy, community-building, education, and research. As the United States’ first seminary-based LGBTQ+ center, CLGS is […]
Why Christians Must Speak Out Against Christian Nationalism In this op-ed piece PSR President Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy writes that “Christian Nationalism, and the ideologies that have fueled it from the very founding of our nation, have left a centuries-long trail of devastation that continues to this day. Through an alliance with White supremacy, it […]
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Under the guise of “parental rights” students are being shamed into silence and teachers are being censored. LGBTQ youth in Florida, and many others states, are subjected to fearmongering tactics to prevent them from speaking honestly about their own lived experiences. In addition to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, the Department of Education in […]
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The Space Between Us By Maij Vu Mai “…ritual is, above all else, the yardstick by which people measure their state of connection with the hidden ancestral realm, with which the entire community is genetically connected…The abandonment of ritual can be devastating…Where ritual is absent, the young ones are restless or violent, there are no […]
CLGS is an interfaith organization, affirming the importance of religious and cultural diversity. It includes a specifically Jewish Roundtable that serves the needs of Jewish queer people. September marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days. This period of religious observance opens with the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah; continues with the Day of […]