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This book is composed as a series of letters. The letters are meant for a young Mormon who is familiar with Mormon life but green in their faith. I imagined myself writing these letters to my own children and struggled, in relation to how we talk about things at church, to say my own piece about what it means to be as a Mormon free, ambitious, repentant, faithful, informed, prayerful, selfless, hungry, chaste, and sealed.
The letters do little to benchmark a Mormon orthodoxy. That work belongs to those called to it. Here, my work is personal. 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 refuses to abandon either life or Mormonism.
- Sales Rank: #76495 in Books
- Published on: 2013-12-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x .20" w x 4.40" l, .20 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 78 pages
About the Author
Adam S. Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas, USA. He is the founder of "The Journal of Philosophy and Scripture" and the author of a number of articles addressing the intersection of religion, ethics and politics.
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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
wonderful, thought provoking, paradigm shifting, and eminently readable
By David Evans
In this tiny book (about 70 pages of actual text in a book that will actually fit in my pocket), Miller provides 12 short, thought provoking, eminently readable essays on core topics of a religious life. He discusses agency, work, sin, faith, scripture, prayer, history, science, hunger, sex, temples, and eternal life. While each essay could stand alone, there are arcs: The essays on sin and faith work well together, as do the essays on hunger and sex.
This book offers alternative ways to think about many of these well-worn concepts. Miller likens our work of studying the scriptures to Joseph Smith’s lifelong work of translating scripture. “You and I must translate these books again. Word by word, line by line, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, God wants the whole thing translated once more, and this time he wants it translated into your native tongue, inflected by your native concerns, and written in your native flesh.”
In his chapter on sin, he employs an extended metaphor that has stayed with me: We have stories we want to tell about our lives, and sin happens when we focus on our story rather than centering our lives on Jesus Christ and His fabulous will for us. In this telling, guilt and shame have no place; they’re both still centered on us, on how we’re measuring up, instead of refocusing towards the Savior.
Many passages of the book are heady and inspiring, rousing calls to action. The essay on scripture is like that: “Get close to the scriptures. Do anything you can. God is in there.… Underline everything. Pack your margins with notes. Read Paul out loud like poetry … Squeeze their verses like oranges. Know Isaiah by heart. Love Matthew like a brother. Sing the psalms as your prayers.”
Likewise, the essay on agency ends with a great promise: “If you give yourself to this work, if you do more than is asked of you, if you get up before you alarm sounds and work out your own salvation, then you will find…what I have found. You will find as you ‘work out your own salvation’ that ‘it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and work for his good pleasure.’”
The chapter on the temple is, as a friend of mined opined, the best description that I’ve seen of our faith’s temple ceremony that feels appropriate to discuss outside of the temple itself. Likewise, I loved his discussion of Church history and of prayer. I could write more, but the book is short: Just read it.
Miller understands that life is complex. “Once you get to work, you’ll be unnerved by the distance between the neat map in your hand and rough terrain at your feet.” He introduces rich perspectives for navigating that terrain. I read this book over just a few days. I hope to do it again and to encourage my friends and family to do the same.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Miller provides beautiful insights that stretch and reassure at the same time.
By Don Earl Kauffman
Miller's book is something special. It mixes simple practical advice, with thoughtful mediations on how to more fully live life. While written with a "young Mormon" in mind, his insights and counsel are valuable to young and old, Mormon or not.
In recent years, I've struggled in some ways with my own Mormonism, as I've felt a certain amount of staleness creeping in. Reading this book was like opening a window and enjoying the rejuvenation that comes from filling a home with fresh air. Miller helps his readers orient (or reorient) their understanding and relationship with God in a way that lessens fatigue and increases enjoyment. It managed to help me feel both better about my current state, and a renewed desire to be better.
It's a book I want to share, but not one that I want to be without. So I'm buying a 2nd copy specifically for lending.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Some of the best that Mormonism has to offer
By Jenny Webb
This wonderful book is just as it says: letters written from an older Mormon to a younger Mormon. The letters are carefully crafted and concise, addressing 12 religious themes with straightforward honesty devoid of gimmicks or flashy stories. And yet, brief as they are, the letters are simultaneously expansive: expansive in scope, and particularly expansive in terms of effect--I have rarely read a general-audience religious book so thoughtfully, and I am certain that I will return to read this book again with similarly fruitful results.
For example, in the chapter on Sin, Miller begins with "Being a good person doesn't mean you're not a sinner. Sin goes deeper. Being good will save you a lot of trouble, but it won't solve the problem of sin. Only God can do this." A simple introduction to the topic of sin, yet one that immediately reassures the reader that their inability to be perfect is not a sign of failure, but rather an invitation for God's grace to act in their life. The entire book exhibits this particular type of tenderness from author to reader; part of Miller's strength as an author lies in his ability to communicate a genuine love for his brothers and sisters without sounding at all patronizing or condescending.
Read this book. And read it again. You won't be able to help yourself. It truly provides some of the best that Mormonism has to offer.
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