Letters to a Young Mormon

by Adam S. Miller

Overview

This book is composed as a series of letters meant for a young Mormon who is familiar with Mormon life but green in his or her faith. Adam Miller is a philosopher by training and a Latter-day Saint by faith. He imagined himself writing these letters to his own children. He endeavored to explain what it means to be – as a Mormon – free, ambitious, repentant, faithful, informed, prayerful, selfless, hungry, chaste, and sealed. Each of these themes is covered in a short letter. Together they lay out a fresh and faithful way of living the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The letters do not offer an easy overview of Latter-day Saint belief. Miller’s work here is more personal. He writes, “I mean only to address the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life. And I hope only to show something of what it means to live in a way that refused to abandon either life or Mormonism.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629723235
Publisher:	Deseret Book Company
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Adam S. Miller is a professor philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas, and the author of five books. He earned a BA in comparative literature from Brigham Young University and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University. Miller is co-editor of a series of books for the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University entitled Groundwork: Studies in Theory and Scripture and serves as the director of the Mormon Theology Seminar. He was a co-owner and co-founder of Salt Press, an independent press recently acquired by the Maxwell Institute. He participates regularly in regional, national, and international conferences that address religious themes. He was named “Best Essayist” in 2011 by the Association for Mormon Letters.