A Wayfare Gift Guide

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Need help finding the perfect book? Here are a few Wayfare staff members recommend for kids, adults, and everyone on your list:

In soaring blank verse, Brighter and Brighter until the Perfect Day reimagines the entire scope of existence from premortal life through the creation, the fall, mortality, the Atonement, and beyond. This gorgeous epic poem blends theology (including the cherished Latter-day Saint doctrine of a Heavenly Mother), science, and imagination in a way that is thoroughly engaging and provocative.

Referring to Orson F. Whitney’s prediction that Latter-day Saints would “yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own,” scholar and writer Michael Austin writes that “the wait may well be over. Sharlee Mulllins Glenn, with her remarkable new epic, comes closer than any poet ever has to being a Milton of our own.”

Melissa does several things in this beautiful book, both spiritually and physically (stunning cover art by Lisa DeLong) and at times she’s doing all of them at once. Her words are encouraging but also sobering, naming daunting problems while also shining a light on resources to address them that we share as members of the Church. This is an excellent book for anyone why feels weary of the struggle, and for everyone who looks for hope in our community. —Lori Forsyth

We are now nearing the two year anniversary of Melissa Inouye’s death. Those two years have done nothing to diminish the significance or beauty of her concluding memoir, Sacred Struggle. A grouping of loosely-related essays, Sacred Struggle is Inouye’s penetrating meditation on opposition, mortality, racism, history, and all that makes us human. It is as close as LDS theology has come to a meaningful theodicy in many years and is a resplendent work of personalized theology. Inouye is one of our most gifted practical theologians and this is a work that will subtly shift your view of the gospel and whose lessons will linger with you long after you’ve finished the last page. —Tyler Johnson

To add to J. Kirk Richards’ lovely cover image, Adam Miller provides settings for several interesting images in this compact volume. He begins each chapter with a description of a Christmas photo