Reflections of a Scientist

Henry Eyring is a world renowned scientist but he was also a father. His son Henry B. Eyring wrote a book about his fathers life, Reflections of a Scientist. In church was forever a teacher in Sunday school and it is said that if the sacrament meeting got boring he could often be seen sitting with a smile on his face- he would give himself a lesson about the subject of the meeting. He was first and formost a Memeber of the Latter Day Saint religion. Henry B. Eyring quotes his father when saying that he really loved the church because ” you don’t have to believe anything that is not true.” Henry Eyring the elder studied chemical reaction rates and wrote many books on science and religion.

Hubener vs. Hitler: A Biography of Helmuth Hubener, Mormon Teenage Resistance Leader

Hubener Vs. Hitler by Richard Lloyd Dewey probably changed my life forever. It was the first non-fiction book that I could not put down, and also because I had never realized cruelty and how easy it was to lie to an entire body of people through the media. Helmuth Hubener was just a young teen at during WWII he found a old broken radio and repaired it so that he could get the British news. What he found was rather surprising, that his government the German government were not only covering up the truth about the war but completely changing the whole story around. He and his friends, one of them named Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, started writing pamphlets and papers with the truth. The articles that they wrote were so good that it took a long time for the German government to find them and then even for them to believe that kids wrote the papers. Without fail he battled against the Nazis and saved his friend’s lives.

Quite a few years after I went to a lecture at my university about teenagers and views about war. It was quite to my amazement and delight that Karl-Heinz Schnibbe was there. So I got to meet him. There is no way to describe the events that took place there, even-though this is a story I will never forget.

Redeeming Love

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers is about a young girl who has a horrible life and is sold into prostitution. Through her life she learned how to hide in herself and learned that she could never trust anyone. Most of all she learned of the lust of men. She hated them for it. One day she met a man named Hosea, it was through him that she found God and love.

I have to say that this is a PG-13 book. I was horrified by the things I read in this book. The cool part about it was the references to the book of Hosea and other names in the Bible. You really feel for the main character Angel in the book. It is all about the true worth of a soul and that a person in not condemned because of sin but they have the chance to change, even if it is hard work.