{"product_id":"the-unfinished-saint-paperback","title":"The Unfinished Saint (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Unfinished Saint is a book written by my husband, Cayman Barber, that explores the gap between the doctrine and culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unfinished Saint\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a stay-in guide for the member sitting in the back row, the one who loves the gospel deeply but is exhausted by the culture around it. Written by a junior high history teacher, returned missionary, and lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this book is an honest conversation about the gap between perfect doctrine and imperfect people, written by someone who has lived inside that gap and found a way to stay anyway.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCayman Barber has sat in the back row of a ward where nobody knew his name. He has stayed on a mission sick, but terrified of coming home. He has carried things in secret for a decade that he was too ashamed to say out loud. And he has come out the other side not with all the answers, but with something better: a framework for holding the hard questions without letting them pull him away from his testimony.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart cultural critique, part historical defense, part practical field guide, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unfinished Saint\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gives members the tools to tell the difference between the Core that never changes and the Culture that was never doctrine to begin with. It makes the evidential case for the Book of Mormon that your Sunday School class never quite got around to. It names the specific cultural wounds -- the Garment Glance, the Mission Clock, the Culture of Silence -- that are driving faithful people out the door. And it offers a practical path forward for anyone willing to show up and build something better in the parking lots and back rows of their own ward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is not a book for people who have it figured out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is a book for people who are still going anyway.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd if you made it this far, that's probably you.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kenna Elizabeth Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45602563260623,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/0657\/0959\/files\/THEUNFINISHEDSAINT_1.png?v=1784242433","url":"https:\/\/kennaelizabethart.com\/products\/the-unfinished-saint-paperback","provider":"Kenna Elizabeth Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}