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Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Love, Loss, and Living Life on Life's Terms: A Conversation with Dr. Adam Miller

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4978 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Last month, Dr. Adam Miller joined Dr. Finlayson-Fife and Room for Two subscribers for an interactive discussion about love and loss. The conversation was simply too incredible to keep contained on the Room for Two podcast, so we are releasing it here today on Conversations with Dr. Jennifer for EVERYONE to enjoy. This beautiful exchange of ideas between Dr. Finlayson-Fife and Dr. Miller will change the way you think about love in the best possible way. Dr. Adam Miller is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in McKinney, Texas. He earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Brigham Young University and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Villanova University. He is the author of over ten books, including “Letters to a Young Mormon”  and “Original Grace”, he serves as the current director of the Mormon Theology seminar. You can learn more about Adam and his work HERE. If you would like to take part in future conversations like this one, consider subscribing to Room for Two! This podcast episode discusses the Zack and Kelly series, found on Dr. Finlayson-Fife's Room for Two podcast. You can listen to a portion of the first episode of the series without a subscription HERE. 

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0:00.0

So Dr. Adam Miller, thank you so much for being here. Somebody in the room for two group

0:10.4

listen to your podcast on follow him loved it posted it there I

0:17.4

listened to it loved it and and so there was a the crowd was saying we want the two of you to talk.

0:25.8

So thank you.

0:29.0

So let me just formally introduce you here for a second and

0:36.2

gives everybody just anyone who doesn't know you a bit about who you are so Dr Adam Miller is a professor of philosophy at

0:39.9

Colin College in McKinney Texas He earned a BA in comparative literature from Bergman University

0:46.0

and an MA and PhD in philosophy from Villanova University. He's the author of more than 10 books including Letters to a Young Mormon and

0:54.8

original grace. He and his wife Gwen have three children and he serves as the

0:59.8

current director of the Mormon theology seminar. So just so people know I sent Adam the last two

1:07.9

episodes of Zach and Kelly of the you know of the seven just to kind of use Zach and Kelly of the seven.

1:13.6

Just to kind of use Zach and Kelly

1:15.1

as a little bit of a reference point

1:16.9

for just talking a bit about what love is

1:20.5

and how, Adam, how you think about love. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to hear you

1:29.3

talking about Christianity and Paul speaking about love in this way because about own life and kind of what my understanding of God, the only understanding of God that makes sense to me.

1:47.0

And so I love the understanding that you have of Paul really trying to teach us this concept

1:56.8

that's very hard to understand what love is when we're working from our I mean in my view our younger

2:05.0

developmental minds. So maybe we could just start with the question Adam of

2:11.7

how do you define love?

2:15.0

How do you think about that question?

2:18.0

That's all we have to manage to do today.

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