Previous to reading this book, I felt entirely ill at ease with my modern-day values and how they corresponded to traditional fundamentalist Christian doctrine. I didn’t understand how to become the best of both worlds—the Christ-follower and the worldly sophisticated philosophe. However, Miller’s words were quite encouraging. He didn’t preach or adopt that “higher-than-thou” tone which I detest. He simply put out his own private life experiences and explained how his beliefs and personal doctrine resulted from those experiences. It was simple, but simple in the best ways.