An Interview with Paul Miller on “A Loving Life”

Paul Miller’s new book is A Loving Life: In a World of Broken Relationships (Crossway, 2014). (The book is on sale for 50% off for the next 72 hours, or 62% off if you buy three or more copies.)

Miller deconstructs our modern views of love and replaces them with a thoroughly biblical one rooted in the gospel and the mind of Jesus. He’s writing into a world that increasingly demands of love but is increasingly unable to offer it. More specifically, he is writing to our modern “widows and widowers” who live without a covenant of love (single women), who live with a broken covenant of love (divorced men or women), or who live with a burdensome covenant of love (trapped in a loveless or uneven marriage). And this is not an abstract topic for Miller. He has said, “I know what it is like to repeatedly trudge out alone in a foreign land into a barley field afraid and unnoticed for the sake of love.”

Scotty Smith writes:

I’m not exaggerating when I say that this is the most honest, timely, and helpful book I’ve ever read about the costly and exhausting demands of loving well. And at the same time, A Loving Life is the most faithful, alluring, and encouraging presentation of God’s love for us in Jesus I’ve fed on in years. These two themes go hand in hand. Through the biblical story of Ruth, Paul Miller gives us hope, not hype—the freedom to suffer well, stay present, and live expectantly in all of our relationships. Thank you, Paul, for making the gospel more beautiful and believable to me.

Here’s a conversation I recently had with Paul Miller:

You can find out more about the book (with sample material) here.