Review
At age 87, Lowell Bennion is a living legend in the Mormon community. For 27 years he taught at the LDS institute of religion adjacent to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He then spent ten years as Associate Dean of Students and Professor of Sociology at the university. During this time he also founded and directed the Teton Valley Boys Ranch and most recently served for 16 years as Executive Director of Salt Lake City's Community Services Council. A popular speaker and writer, "Brother B", as his students affectionately called him, combined the rigorous insights of a thoughtful, reasoned faith in God with the selfless compassion of a genuine, caring humanitarianism, profoundly touching the lives of tens of thousands of men and women. Believing that "every human being should be allowed to craft his or her own destiny," he once observed: "If you have integrity and love, you have all the great virtues. Mary Bradford's Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian is a superlative biography of a man sometimes checked, but never defeated. Lowell L. Bennion also gives memorable insights into a life lived within a Mormon cultural and educational context. -- Midwest Book Review
