Adam S. Miller

ADAM S. MILLER is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He is the author of Badiou, Marion, and St Paul: Immanent Grace (Continuum, 2008), Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology (Kofford, 2012), Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology (Fordham University Press, 2013), and Letters to a Young Mormon (Maxwell Institute, 2014). He also serves as the director of the Mormon Theology Seminar.

“Take No Thought”

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 1

You’re going to miss it. You’re distracted. Sit up straight. You’re not paying attention.

God does not come and go—your attention does.

All sins are just variations on that same desire to do something else when you’re already doing something. Multitaskers are children of the devil. You can’t serve two masters. Divided attention is just dressed-up inattention.

Recompense

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 2

George Handley’s Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River practices theology the way a doctor practices CPR—not as a secondhand theory but as a chest-cracking, lung-inflating, life-saving intervention. The book models what, on my account, good theology ought to do: It is experimental, it is grounded in the details of lived experience, and it takes charity—that pure love of Christ— as the only real justification for its having been written. It is not afraid to guess, it is not afraid to question, it is not afraid to cry repentance, and it is not afraid to speak in its own name.

Review: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 1