A SAMPLING OF WRITINGS BY CHRIS GLASER

The Chris Glaser Collection archive at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.

To hear archived audio sermons at MCC San Francisco, click here. Scroll down for sermons between Dec 2007 – Nov 2006.

Read article by Chris on, “Homosexuality and the Bible,” and access free curricula he wrote on Daniel Karslake’s film, For the Bible Tells Me So, and collected for Gender Identity and Our Faith Communities for the Religion and Faith Program of the Human Rights Campaign.

Read issues of Open Hands magazine that Chris edited (scroll down to find issues beginning with Vol. 13, No. 3-Vol. 18, No. 1).

To read the complete text of writings below, click the title.

From Awakening the Spirit, Healing the Wounds: The Redemptive Gay Experience, the theme of the 36th annual gay and bisexual Christian men's retreat at Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, Bangor, Pennsylvania held January 13-16, 2011: Chris Glaser Presentation One: "Healing the Wounds," and Presentation Two: "Awakening the Spirit."

Jesus' Temptations – February 21, 2010
First Sunday in Lent, Virginia Highland Church in Atlanta, GA

A Marriage Made in Heaven – October 1, 2008
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards invited Chris to Pittsburgh to preach during her trial by the Presbyterian Church (USA) for officiating at a same-gender marriage ceremony.

Fear of the Spirit – May 14, 2008
The gay/straight alliance known as FLAME invited Chris to speak during a chapel service at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver.

Killing Buddha, Killing Christ – April 7, 2008
A speech at the Colgate Rochester Crozier Theological Seminary of Rochester, New York.

Pride and Passion: Claiming Our Faith! – April 6, 2008
An annual ecumenical LGBTQ Pride event held at Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York.

Jesus and Zorba as Brothers – September 16, 2005
Glaser’s invitation as a Christian author to speak at a Gay Spirit Visions gathering was not without controversy. GSV is the Southern equivalent of the Radical Faeries, known for alternative expressions of spirituality.

Do You Mind Dogs? – July 3, 2004
The closing sermon of the Presbyterian General Assembly meeting in Richmond, Virginia.

The Church Isn’t Jesus – November, 2003
The opening sermon of the national gathering of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians, which is supportive of LGBT ordination.

Prophesy to the Spirit and Burning Hearts – March 17 & 19, 2002
The opening and closing sermons of the LGBTQ Seminarians Conference, whose theme was “Militating Isms”