Religion and Gender

Center for Women and Men, USC Office of Religious Life

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 : 12:00pm to 1:00pm

University Park Campus
Waite Phillips Hall
403

Free


How does religion affect our conceptions of gender and sexuality? United University Church's Rev. Frank Wulf offers a new perspective.

Rev. Wulf, pastor of the United University Church on campus, will reflect on the effects religion has traditionally had on the ways lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons come to grips with who they are and how they will live in the world. In many cases, religion has served a negative role, leading LGBT people to develop low self-esteem, to become self-condemning, to retreat into closets, and sometimes even to cause themselves harm.

Rev. Wulf offers an alternative model of religious practice for LGBT people that helps them integrate their sexual identities and find healthy ways of living in the world. Such a model is both critical and constructive and utilizes methodologies developed in liberation theology movements.

Lunch will be provided.

Rev. Frank Wulf