Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration
BCC Press, 2024. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 448pp. "Like the prophet-historian Mormon, Brother Nathan Kitchen deftly chronicles the history of his people while standing as a witness to their labors, sufferings, miracles, and eternal worth in the eyes of God. Interweaving secular history, soul-searching religious memoir, striking anecdote, and Christ-saturated imagery, Kitchen keeps a fixed foot on the reality of the past, contextualizing the present while longing for yet more glorious and redemptive futures for the queer Latter-day Saint. His book is engrossed with such thoroughly Mormon concepts as covenant belonging, unmerited grace, the ongoing restoration, and the sacred—if not essential—nature of questions in our spiritual journeys. An act of holy consecration, The Boughs of Love is as much an accessible, sprawling roadmap of the pitfalls and progress of queer identity within the LDS tradition as it is a testimony of the expansive hope that the Restored Gospel of Christ can offer to all members of the family of God."
—Jaxon Washburn, PhD student, UCLA. New. Item #39590
ISBN: 9781961471153
Price: $16.95