Temple Square is always beautiful in the springtime. JH: I’m telling young people to believe. HH: What was your dissertation about, Elder? That gives rise, I’ll finish the sentence you started with my other son. You have to voluntarily honor a contract. JH: Well, it seems like every day, I had not heard that incident, but these incidents that we read about or hear about almost literally every day, I think, are genuinely frightening. HH: And I think more doors are closing than are opening across the globe. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was admitted to an area hospital on Wednesday. You can’t lose with sources like that. You do nothing for 36 months but worry about these kids. Created with Sketch. You just…. Toggle menu. JH: My dissertation was on Mark Twain’s religious sense, when there really was a religious sense, up to his 48th birthday when he published Huckleberry Finn. We do have, the Middle East is another area that I supervise, so I watch very carefully, and read with some anxiety what can happen and does happen in those locations. And I think my professors thought they had failed me. And it was, that’s the big news story of the day. Much of that’s in Asia, if you broadly define Asia, and certainly Communist China, and the Middle East. This country will be in trouble if that’s the direction we go. How can we remain "unspotted from the world" and survive or even thrive in such circumstances? We have been very, very blessed. JH: Let me explain. That has to be something from the soul. A Conversation with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (DVD) $24 95 $24.95; Add to Cart. In your piece, you talk about family. HH: One more quick segment with Elder Holland when we come back./. And you get two or three months to get your life in order, and then you go and do nothing. HH: Is the church working to extend its educational system and its family support network across the globe at the same time? But do you sense that the left is figuring out in the country, or the secular absolutists, I always talk about them abstractly, but they’re real people and they have real concerns about theocracy, etc. And they will every morning give us a briefing and say do not go to the old city, or of course, we will never go to, for example, most parts of Bethlehem. In their own faith or the quest for a new faith, that’s more attractive and more visible, I think, more obvious than I think it was even a quarter of a century ago. At the time of this call, Elder Holland was serving as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, to which he had been called on April 1, 1989. HH: No one should ever be attacked that way, but it seems to me endemic that people of faith, and people of no faith at all, are all coming under threats of violence. It continues to do well. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. HH: …is a professor at Harvard Divinity School. All Rights Reserved. HH: And you cite him in your article on religious toleration. But when I took him through it at the conclusion of the construction, he said this may well be the most beautiful building built in Jerusalem in the last one hundred years. That is the first element of the Bill of Rights, and as you know, you’re the legal scholar, but I think we can’t assume that some other right, or some other civil privilege is going to trump something as fundamental as free expression. Other Salem National sites include: I mean, you know…. Tweet Email Print. And with the growth of the church, there are more and more young people who would like to be at BYU but aren’t. Dr. George Wood, former general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, told Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in a recent podcast that he used to avoid conversations with missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are proud to serve the LDS community all across Canada! HH: That, I am more than a little surprised on that, but you have produced at least one other educator as well. HH: Now at the law school at BYU, are you training up people to defend 1st Amendment freedoms all across the land? SRNNews.com, Copyright © 2021 HughHewitt.com & Salem Media Group. In response to questions surrounding when seminary and institute will return to the classroom, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said in a new video and article released Sunday that while there many not be a perfect answer to these questions, the hope is that in whatever way possible, high school and college students are having a “scriptural experience and a spiritual education every day of the week.” In that same spirit, we invited George Wood, head of the Church of God, and I guess the largest, maybe the largest Protestant congregation in the world. Holland was ordained an apostle of the church in June of 1994 and became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles later that year. LarryElder.com, HH: When we went to break, I had read in Elder Holland’s biography that he had had charge of Africa until recently. HH: …and with whom I developed a wonderful friendship. My friend, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary…. You have to voluntarily choose to be honest. I had a wonderful, wonderful faculty. HH: I don’t know what that means. HH: …in order to have a democratic success. We probably won’t be doing a lot of brick and mortar, but we’ll be teaching more in the home from parents, with parents, to children. It’s a good winter to be in Utah. He’s not in the clerical business. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland Visits Philippines, Shares Message on Love Copied to Clipboard Messages of faith and obedience highlight the multi-stake (diocese) conference with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland , a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church … HH: It is very good to have you here. It’s a fairly fluid, loose kind of program where you can pull together any such threesome and make a mix in American culture. He served as the ninth President of Brigham Young University and is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The chances for an accident, the chances for a serious difficulty or a death, are really minimal. JH: Well, I’m not there very often, but it’s been very mild. This site is a proud member of Salem National, a subsidiary of Salem Media Group. JH: That’s right. So another one of the reasons that I’m here in town. We just, safety and protection for our students is our first concern. So I accept that as God’s hand in my life, and the guidance that we pray for and expect, but don’t always understand when we get it. Sit at the feet of a modern Apostle as he answers questions such as: How can I build hope in Christ? That’s a legitimate concern in lots of places in the world. But I believe that there really needs to be a return to some of these founding issues. We just, we can’t grow. JH: That’s a nice way to say better than what I just said. The Lord seldom gives ‘the why' behind a commandment. Jeffrey R. Holland View Products . We proceed with great faith. I think they thought here is this young man, and now he’s turning out to be a disappointment, because I don’t know that they thought that, but I think they were surprised that I would not have tried something a little bolder or a little more imaginative with that kind of a degree. This DVD was originally produced as a companion piece to Elder Holland's book For Times of Trouble. Now I want to contrast that with other parts of the world where no missionaries of any faith can go. In a wide-ranging, frank, and open discussion, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve offers hope-filled, thoughtful, and poignant answers to tough questions about faith, troubles, and our roles as disciples of Jesus Christ. But today, an American blogger was hacked to death in Bangladesh. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 JH: No, no, that is unprecedented in American history. We had lived in hotels, we’d taken them to whatever accommodation we could find, and finally got a piece of property on Mount Scopus, of all places. HH: …but it’s nevertheless obviously, it says I drink to make my friends interesting. HH: And of those, 83, 85,000 are in mission fields right now? JH: Well, it’s, it involves just putting your life on hold and wrapping things up. 2 (2015): 1–7. He spoke to young adults on September 22, 2019. HH: Then we’ll talk about that when we come back. MikeOnline.com, “He is returning to normal activities. Jeffrey R. Holland Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on June 23, 1994. In 1974 he became dean of Religious Education at BYU and two years later was named Church Commissioner of Education. Let me give a touch of history to that. We’re projecting out probably within four years, the baseline number for the missionary force will be something around 100,000. HH: I want to dive deep into that. What’s that mean? “I go up and say, ‘Do … HH: Or the Atlanta fire chief. That is absolutely, it may be unprecedented in Western civilization. His visit began on Saturday, Feb. 23 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, where he spoke at a meeting of several congregations in the Apeldoorn area. He is also the third such member that I’ve had an opportunity to interview. And out of that grew this idea that what we have to enforce is the unenforceable. HH: Harvard in the 70s, nobody was a Christian. HH: What are you telling your young people? JH: Just had that discussion with the law faculty at Chapman, as long as we’re talking about a faculty member at Chapman. 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