Cover of Reading a Prophet’s Life by Rosalyn H. Zhang

The inaugural volume · 2026

READING REFLECTIONS · VOLUME ONE

Reading a
Prophet’s Life

Russell M. Nelson’s life, read through the connections between science and faith, responsibility and surrender, effort and humility.

7 reflections55 pages2026 first edition
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ABOUT THE BOOK

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, Zhang 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.

CONTENTS

01
Reading & belonging

Start the Journey

A borrowed book, a summer journey, and the life of a prophet

02
Example & transformation

Bathed in a Gentle, Revitalizing Breeze

When a prophet’s lived faith loosens the knots within us

03
Responsibility & surrender

Selflessness

Two losses, separated by thirty-six years

04
Science & revelation

The Waymaker

Preparation, prayer, and the path that suddenly appears

05
Choice & eternity

Think Celestial!

The narrow path may be clear without being easy

06
Healing & teaching

A Great Leader Touches Hearts

How faith enters professional and ordinary life

07
Friendship & providence

Time Passes

A road not taken—and a relationship that lasted sixty years