Spirituality & Practice: Review of Queer & Christian

Brandan Robertson has been preparing for this book all his life — going back to childhood when his dad called him a faggot, he suffered daily panic attacks at school, and he had thoughts of suicide; through his conversion to Evangelical Christianity as a young teenager; and including when he was a student at the ultra-conservative Moody Bible Institute in Chicago accepting the idea that his queerness needed fixing. There are painful scenes of enduring “conversion therapy,” when he was treated in ways so invasive that it’s a wonder he didn’t leave faith behind entirely. Robertson tells these stories with vulnerability and verve in the early memoir chapters of this book.