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With fearless candor and disarming vulnerability, she deftly performs charity’s essential work of both comforting the comfortless and discomforting the comfortable. —Adam Miller, author of Original Grace: An Experiment in Restoration Thinking Few people have the breadth of lived background and historical training, along with the gift for practical parables and searing honesty, possessed by Melissa Inouye. Her life history and her scholarship give her particular authority to address faith challenges confronting many in the global Church; this book exemplifies her lifelong project to find a holy synthesis of universal charity and unflinching discipleship. You will learn about phragmites and chickens, see patriarchy and political polarization with new eyes, and experience a church you may not have known through an array of startling voices she brings into the light. Inouye is piercingly personal, and both dazzling and disconcerting in her directness. 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This book fills me with desire to embrace paths of great resistance, to pursue a “life full of life,” and to offer my struggle to God for the wisdom, love, and new creation it brings to light. —Rosalynde Frandsen Welch, Research Fellow, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University This is the book I’ve been waiting for! Sacred Struggle is raw, refreshing, and healing. Inouye tackles the hard topics that I and many other young adults grapple with. She does so with poise, beauty, and grace. I love that Inouye doesn’t shy away from questions and facts that others often avoid for fear of shaking testimonies. Instead, by addressing them with openness, Inouye strengthens testimonies. I love that she openly talks about racism, the patriarchy, Church history, the environment, illness, LGBTQ topics, alienation, and so many other subjects. I personally found this book to be a panacea for a lot of my own concerns. 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