num_pages: 112
description: 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 his or her faith. The author philosophy professor Adam S. Miller imagined himself writing these letters to his own children. In doing so he struggled to say his 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 Miller's work is personal. He means only to address the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life and hopes to show something of what it means to live in a way that refuses to abandon either life or Mormonism. This second edition of Letters to a Young Mormon  includes all the content of the original well-loved book with added chapters on the Sabbath and stewardship as well as a new preface by the author which provides additional framing and context for his writing.
language: English
title: Letters to a Young Mormon
publisher: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and Deseret Book