{"id":5639,"date":"2014-04-04T12:23:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairmormon.org\/store\/product\/letters-to-a-young-mormon"},"modified":"2018-08-03T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:29:33","slug":"letters-to-a-young-mormon","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/fairlatterdaysaints.org\/store\/product\/letters-to-a-young-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to a Young Mormon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adam C. Miller. \u00a0Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religous Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2014. Softbound, 4.25&#215;7&#8243;, 78 pages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 their faith. 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