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4.46 AVERAGE
4.46 AVERAGE
This book is a treasure to keep close to the heart. It’s a quick read and I have reread it several times because the light shines so brightly on the truths of the gospel. Sunday School teachers sometimes force-feed applications of principles addressed in this book, building a mountain of shame and guilt for youth. Sometimes when a disciple is adept at following and obedience, motivation by guilt or shame continues into adulthood until you’ve lost your life and become spiritually dead, as Miller describes. Rather than filling pages describing the abstract of God’s grace and mercy, Miller shows us what that can look like in the messiness of our daily lives, and leaves us with the question to answer, how does this look for me?
Still great. I really enjoyed the letter on stewardship which is new in this addition.
I'd give this six stars if I could. I'd also recommend it to anyone: young Mormons, middle-aged agnostics, old atheists . . .
A very thought provoking book and worth multiple and slow rereads. There is good value to different philosophical concepts in mormon religion that we may glide over too frequently.
4.5 stars
This tiny morsel of a book is probably not for everyone, but that is more of a style issue than content. It actually reminds me in some ways of John Donne's meditations. Again, not in content but in style. If you don't like meandering, abstracted thinking, this book might drive you a little crazy.
But for those who tend to be more philosophically, metaphysically, or poetically minded—guilty as charged—for these it will almost assuredly be a home run.
If you liked this I highly recommend Charles Shiro Inouye's [b:The End of the World, Plan B: A Guide for the Future|28261464|The End of the World, Plan B A Guide for the Future|Charles Shiro Inouye|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1450730976l/28261464._SY75_.jpg|48301416].
This tiny morsel of a book is probably not for everyone, but that is more of a style issue than content. It actually reminds me in some ways of John Donne's meditations. Again, not in content but in style. If you don't like meandering, abstracted thinking, this book might drive you a little crazy.
But for those who tend to be more philosophically, metaphysically, or poetically minded—guilty as charged—for these it will almost assuredly be a home run.
If you liked this I highly recommend Charles Shiro Inouye's [b:The End of the World, Plan B: A Guide for the Future|28261464|The End of the World, Plan B A Guide for the Future|Charles Shiro Inouye|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1450730976l/28261464._SY75_.jpg|48301416].
Some real wisdom here, and lyrical prose, and deeply-thought meditations on what it looks like to live the Gospel if you’ve really absorbed it into your bones.
It’s not actually, I think, letters to a young Mormon. It’s too allegorical, inferred, rarefied. It’s what we wish a young Mormon would understand, but I don’t think it’s the book that would take them there with much clarity. I wish someone would write that book.
It’s not actually, I think, letters to a young Mormon. It’s too allegorical, inferred, rarefied. It’s what we wish a young Mormon would understand, but I don’t think it’s the book that would take them there with much clarity. I wish someone would write that book.
I would recommend this book to pretty much any lds person who wants to be thoughtful about faith. Written from a philosophical standpoint, I'd group this book with C.S. Lewis or Kierkegaard in style and meaningful content, but because it's only 80 pages, it's much more approachable to any level of reader. A great read!!