Reading a
Prophet’s Life

A life is more than
a chronology.

A young heart surgeon returns to the laboratory after devastating loss. One year later, a surgical solution comes as an answer to prayer. His medical training, research, and reflections on the physician’s role lead toward broader questions about healing, physiology, and the human life behind medicine.

Through personal reflection, the book explores Nelson’s life at the meeting places of science and faith, responsibility and surrender, effort and humility, reason and revelation.

What emerges is not only the story of an extraordinary physician and religious leader, but a reflection on what we may discover in a religious leader’s life—and what that life may come to mean in our own.