
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.
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
01Start the Journey
A borrowed book, a summer journey, and the life of a prophet
Bathed in a Gentle, Revitalizing Breeze
When a prophet’s lived faith loosens the knots within us
Selflessness
Two losses, separated by thirty-six years
The Waymaker
Preparation, prayer, and the path that suddenly appears
Think Celestial!
The narrow path may be clear without being easy
A Great Leader Touches Hearts
How faith enters professional and ordinary life
Time Passes
A road not taken—and a relationship that lasted sixty years