A review by lucy_fox
Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church by Bridget Eileen Rivera

5.0

This is the book that has most encapsulated my personal reasons for being LGBTQ affirming, though the author herself is not affirming. I very much just appreciated her historical and researched argument for straight people to just get off queer peoples’ backs. And to recognize the hypocrisy in their own lives. It has been a book that has helped friends of mine who aren’t fully affirming, but basically don’t feel the need to push their opinions on their friends and helped them feel the freedom to fully love and celebrate their queer friends and their partners without feeling like they have to betray their personal beliefs.