470: Adam Miller’s Letter to a Young Mormon Part 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Adam Miller has been described as one of the most interesting thoughtful/faithful writers in Mormonism today. In this episode we speak with Adam about his new book, "Letters to a Young Mormon," published by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. According to Adam, this book attempts to address the real beauty and costs of trying to live a Mormon life. Adam Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney Texas. He was born and raised in a small Pennsylvania branch, served an LDS mission in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been married for 15 years to Gwen Miller, has three children, and is currently serving as an adviser in the Teachers Quorum in his ward. Adam is the director of the Mormon Theology Seminar, and is the author of five books including Letters to a Young Mormon.

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0:00.0	One, two, three.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to another edition of The
0:29.5	Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:31.5	I'm your host, John D'Alene.
0:33.5	And today, May 9, 2014, I am super excited to have with us a man that some of you may be familiar with, but I'm guessing a lot of you won't be familiar with.
0:49.5	His name is Adam Miller.
0:53.5	Adam is a professor of philosophy at Colin College in McKinney, Texas.
0:59.5	He was born and raised in church in the church in a small branch in Pennsylvania, served as a machine in albacricky.
1:09.5	He's been married to Gwen Miller for the past 15 years with three children.
1:14.5	He's active in his ward.
1:16.5	He's a teacher's corpsman advisor.
1:20.5	And he is he's heavy into, I just say Mormon philosophy and theology.
1:27.5	He's written several books, one of which we're going to be talking about today.
1:32.5	And he's the director of the Mormon theology seminar.
1:36.5	What's that Adam?
1:38.5	The Mormon theology seminar is a little independent project that organizes short term seminars that collaboratively read specific chapters of scripture together and then produce papers and a conference and books eventually on the topics that were covered in those chapters of scripture.
2:02.5	Excellent.
2:04.5	Okay. And I'll just I'll just tell my listeners upfront.
2:10.5	Kind of why I was interested in interviewing Adam.
2:14.5	I you know, I've talked to several people about, you know, what's going on in Mormonism.
2:22.5	I'm kind of always keeping my ear to the ground.
2:25.5	And if you if you talk to people like Brad Kramer or Dan Witherspoon or Lloyd Erickson and probably many other people, they'll tell you that that Adam Miller is doing some of the most interesting and inspiring writing in Mormonism currently.
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