Adam Miller on more Letters to a Young Mormon [MIPodcast #76]

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Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Adam Miller wrote Letters to a Young Mormon for thoughtful people yearning for a more thoughtful faith. It’s a little book, but it packs a powerful punch. In this episode, Miller is talks about the new second expanded edition, which the Maxwell Institute recently published in partnership with Deseret Book. We also talk about the perils of Mormon quasi-celebrity, bad book reviews, apologetics, his future projects, and other things.

Stick around after the interview with Adam; we’ve got a special mini-episode with Institute visiting scholar Janiece Johnson asking for help with her current project.

About the Guest

Adam S. Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He and his wife, Gwen, have three children. He is the author of many books, including Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology (Greg Kofford Books, 2012) and Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology (Fordham University Press, 2013), and two editions of Letters to a Young Mormon (Maxwell Institute & Deseret Book, 2018). He also serves as the director of the Mormon Theology Seminar.

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0:00.0	It's the Maxwell Institute podcast.
0:14.9	I'm Blair Hodges.
0:16.9	Adam Miller is the author of a book called Letters to a Young Mormon.
0:20.4	It's a little book, but it packs a powerful punch.
0:23.3	In this episode, Miller's here to talk about the new second expanded edition of the book.
0:27.3	I've known Adam for a number of years now, so this interview is a little bit more informal than some of the other episodes.
0:32.8	Adam's a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas, and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ
0:37.9	of Latter-day Saints. He also recently delivered an Institute guest lecture here at Brigham Young
0:42.5	University. You'll be able to catch a recording of that lecture in the coming weeks. But before we
0:46.9	get to Adam, I also wanted to thank listener Rachel Ann. She took time out of her presumably
0:51.3	busy schedule to rate and review the Maxwell Institute
0:54.4	podcast in iTunes.
0:56.1	Among other things, she said, I love listening to this podcast during my morning workouts.
1:00.0	It gives me so much to think about every day.
1:01.8	It's broadening my horizons and helping me to see scripture and daily life in new, creative,
1:06.0	spiritually uplifting ways.
1:07.5	I'm looking forward to future episodes, keep up the great work.
1:11.5	Thank you, Rachel.
1:15.4	And we'll also invite everybody to stick around after the interview with Adam in this episode.
1:19.6	We've got a special little mini episode tacked on to the end with Janice Johnson, a visiting scholar here at the Maxwell Institute. Questions and comments about this and other episodes can be sent
1:24.8	to me at MI Podcast at BYU.edu.
1:28.2	And here's Adam Miller, talking about letters to a young Mormon.
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