Registration includes: Thursday night dinner, Friday and Saturday breakfast and lunch.
 

 CLGS Transgender ReligiousLeaders Summit 2012

November 1, 2 and 3, 2012

Co-sponsored by:  The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion (PSR), Light In the Closet Ministries, Starr King School for the Ministry of the Graduate Theological Union, and Nehirim.
 

Who is a faith leader? If you are an active member of a faith community and are promoting transgender inclusion, acceptance, and dignity then YOU are a leader!

Our faith communities must be educated and inspired to embrace the inclusion and affirmation of our transgender, queer, intersex, transsexual and gender non-conforming members. This is the rallying call for the our sixth CLGS Transgender Religious Leaders Summit.

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Calendar of Sessions:
Thursday Evening, November 1

3:30 PM - 6:00 PM  / Registration at the PSR Chapel

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM / MUDD 100
Welcome: Bernie Schlager, CLGS Executive Director and Rev. Roland Stringfellow, Coalition of Welcoming Congregations Director of Ministerial Outreach

Introduction and Blessing: Rev. Dr. Dawn Roginski, ELCA / Rev. Megan Rohrer

6:30 PM - 7:45 PM / Catered Dinner provided by Wild Thyme Catering, Walnut Creek, CA

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM / Service and Celebration  / at the PSR Chapel
Event Leaders: Ashley Moore, Lee Whittaker and 4M Ministries

Friday, November 2

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM  / Registration

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  /  Breakfast at PSR Dining Hall

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM  / Sacred Space with Rev. Vicki Gray, Episcopal Deacon 

9:20 AM - 10:20 AM  / SESSION 1: Raising Our Expectations
Panel: Rev. Sr. Elena Kelly, Order or St Hildegard / Rev. Louis Mitchell, Board Member National Gay and Lesbian Task Force / Rabbi Levi Alter, President FTM International

10:30 AM - 11:55 PM  / KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Rev. Megan Rohrer
Empowering and Inspiring: Being an Advocate for Each Other.

Our keynote speaker, Megan Rohrer, has been working on the National level giving voice to the plight of transgender, transsexual, queer, intersex and gender non-conforming youth within faith communities and on the streets of our cities.  Megan will speak on our right and privilege as faith leaders to act as a "bridges" to communicate life-changing thoughts and actions.

11:55 AM - 12:10 PM  /  Sacred Space / Patricia Kevena Fili, Wiccan and Pagan Priestess

12:10 PM - 1:30 PM  /  Lunch at PSR Dining Hall

1:30 PM - 2:55 PM / SESSION 2:Flourishing Beyond Shame Workshop
Moderator: Daniel Borysewicz, Student PSR, Berkeley
Co-Moderator: Tanesh Watson, City of Refuge, San Francisco

1:35 PM - 2:10 PM  /  SESSION 3:Affirmation or Assimilation: Religious Movements & Trans Liturgy  /   Moderator: Joel Layton, Student PSR, Berkeley

2:15 PM - 2:55 PM / SESSION 4: The Transgender Christ
Moderator: Rev. Megan More, MCC North Hollywood

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM  /  SESSION 5: T Forward - Moving Trans Advocacy Forward in Religious Life
Panel:
Chris Paige on PCUSA and the T Forward
Jamie Ann on TransLutherans
Vicki Gray on TransEpiscopal and GC 2013
Barbara Satin on health care
Ruth Branham on United Church Canada and Toby's Law

4:50 PM - 5:00 PM  /  Report on Nehirim: Rabbi David Dunn Bauer, Nehirim

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM  / PSR CHAPEL / Sacred Space: Shabbat Service

SPECIAL FRIDAY NIGHT EVENT
Don't miss this evening in Berkeley for food, fellowship, faith and fun! 
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM  / Venue: Mudd 100
DINNER SESSION: The Open Door Coffeehouse  / Moderator: Joni Christian, UCC 

Saturday, November 3
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM  /  Registration / at MUDD 100

 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM  /  Breakfast at PSR Dining Hall

 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM  /  Sacred Space:"An Un-convent-ional Devotional."
Elena Kelly, Order of St. Hildegard

9:00 AM - 10:25 AM  / SESSION 7:Gender Fluidity - Moving past polarized models
Panel: Rev. Dr. Dawn Roginski, ELCA / Randi Klein, Founder Light in the Closet Ministry / Chris Paige, Director TransFaith Online / Megan Rorher

9:00 AM - 10:25 AM  / SESSION 8:The Break Through Conversation
How to "come out" to friends and family members.
Moderator:  Rev. Roland Stringfellow, Coalition of Welcoming Congregations

10:35 AM - 11:35 AM  / SESSION 9:How TG allies and advocates can work together.
Panel: Don Crisostomo, SF Trans Ally  / Rev. Will McGarvey, Pastor Community Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg / Rev. Roland Stringfellow CWC

10:35 AM - 11:35 AM  /  SESSION 10: TRANSISTIONING AFTER AGE 35
Tru-Life of Modernday Post-Operative Transgender
Moderator: June Remus, MCC Minneapolis

10:35 AM - 11:55 AM  /  SESSION 11: Transgender Healthcare Forum  
Co-Moderators: Ben Lunine, Jewish MDiv Student Pacific School of Religion / Claire Bohman, Pagan MDiv Student Pacific School of Religion

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11:00 AM - 2:00 PM  /  Transgender Community Resource Faire

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 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM  /  Lunch at PSR Dining Hall

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM / Sacred Space : Lee Whittaker Healing service of lights

2:30 PM - 3:40 PM  / SESSION 12:Being Transgender is Kosher

"Beyond the Binary in Ancient Jewish Texts"

Moderators:Rabbi Dev Noily, Ben Lunine

1:55 PM - 2:25 PM  / SESSION 13:Launching Transgender Families of Faith Support Group

"Support for those who are impacted by transgender family members."

Moderators:Randi Klein,Rev. Will McGarvey

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM  /  SESSION 14: Voices of Witness, "Out of the Box"
Documentary film produced by, Integrity USA
Session Leader: Rev. Vicki Gray, TransEpiscopal

1:55 PM - 3:30 PM  /  SESSION 15:What Does it Mean to be a Leader?
Moderator: Louis Mitchell  /  Panel: Patricia Fili, Elena Kelly, Chris Paige

3:45 PM - 4:55 PM / SESSION 15: Reports and What is in Store for the next 12 months
Moderators:  Rev. Megan Rohrer and Bernie Schlager

Report from the Transgender Religious Leaders Roundtable:
Patrick Califia—Writer and Pagan priest, Fellowship of the Spiral Path
Angel Collie—Yale Divinity School, Candidate for Ordination Metropolitan Community Churches
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza—Iliff School of Theology
Jakob Hero—CLGS Transgender Roundtable Coordinator, Candidate for Ordination MCC
Hilary Howes—Roman Catholic
Shannon "Shay" Kearns—Deacon, Old American Catholic Church
Louis Mitchell—United Church of Christ
Elena Rose Vera—Starr King School for the Ministry, Unitarian Universalist 

 Reports from Transgender Sessions across the USA:
Chris Paige, Editor and Publisher of TransFaith Online
Bishop Tonyia M. Rawls , founding pastor of Unity Fellowship Church in Charlotte, N.C.and Bishop, Unity Fellowship Church Movement
Bernie Schlager, Executive Director, CLGS, and Faculty, PSR
Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, IWR and Faith Work Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

 5:10 PM - 5:50 PM / Sacred Space: Rev. Dr. Dawn Roginski  (A Different Communion)

 
Click here for Travel and Lodging information 

For information please contact:
Randi Klein, 2012 Summit Organizer, Light in the Closet Ministry
925-586-4651
rklein@lightinthecloset.org

-or-

Deseree Fontenot, CLGS Program and Administrative Associate
clgs@clgs.org

For more information visit: www.CLGS.com

Partner Events:

California Gathering of Gender Non-Conforming Jews
Friday, November 2 - through - Sunday, November 4, 2012   
For more information contact:
Rabbi David Dunn Bauer at david@nehirim.org 
Click Here to Register
 

Gathering of Gender Non-Conforming Muslims
Friday, November 2, 2012
For more information contact Ibrahim Farajaje via his assistant,
Noach Dzmura at: NDzmura@sksm.edu
Click Here to Register