Bruce C. Hafen
Bruce C. Hafen | |
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First Quorum of the Seventy | |
April 6, 1996 | – October 2, 2010|
Called by | Gordon B. Hinckley |
End reason | Designated an emeritus general authority |
Emeritus General Authority | |
October 2, 2010 | |
Called by | Thomas S. Monson |
Personal details | |
Born | Bruce Clark Hafen October 30, 1940 St. George, Utah, United States |
Bruce Clark Hafen (born October 30, 1940, in
Early life
Hafen was raised in St. George, Utah by
Legal career
After practicing law in Salt Lake City, Utah for four years, he became an assistant to BYU president
From 1976 to 1978, Hafen was the director of evaluation and research for the LDS Church's Correlation Department. He then served as president of
Hafen was Dean of the JRCLS from 1985 to 1989. While there he helped to create an international law society for LDS Church members and others who were lawyers. By 2017, the law society had over 10,000 members in more than 100 chapters, a third of them outside the U.S. Hafen also raised donated funds to establish a series of endowed professorships to support law faculty scholarship. The JRCLS later created an endowed professorship and an endowed annual lectureship in Hafen's name.[9]
From 1989 to 1996, he was the provost at BYU.[10] As provost, he worked with the faculty to develop a policy that appropriately blended BYU's institutional academic freedom as a religious university with the faculty's individual academic freedom, along with a new policy statement describing “The Aims of a BYU Education.”[11]
LDS Church service
Hafen has served in several leadership positions in the LDS Church over the years. This included serving as a counselor in a
Hafen was an active LDS Church general authority from 1996 to 2010. His assignments included serving as president of the church's Australia/New Zealand and Europe Central areas. He also served in the presidency of North America Central Area and as an executive director or assistant executive director at church headquarters over the Church History, Temple, and Priesthood departments.
He has published several books and numerous articles on religious topics, including the Atonement of Jesus Christ, marriage, faith, Christian discipleship, and dealing with ambiguity. Two of his books won the year's best book award from Deseret Book—The Broken Heart in 1989 and A Disciple's Life: The Biography of Neal A. Maxwell in 2002.
At an Evergreen International conference in 2009, Hafen urged LDS Church leaders and members to reach out in love to those with same-gender attraction.[13] On October 2, 2010, Hafen was released from the
Personal life
Hafen met his wife, Marie Kartchner, in a religion class at BYU.
Published works
- —— (1986). The Believing Heart: Four Essays on Faith. Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft.
- —— (1989). The Broken Heart: Applying the Atonement to Life's Experiences. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.
- ——; Hafen, Marie K. (1994). The Belonging Heart: The Atonement and Relationships with God and Family. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.
- —— (2002). A Disciple's Life: The Biography of Neal A. Maxwell. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.
- —— (2005). Covenant Hearts: Marriage and the Joy of Human Love. Salt Lake City, Utah: ISBN 978-1-59038-536-4.
- —— (2008). Broken Hearts: Applying the Atonement to Life's Experiences. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.
- ——; Hafen, Marie K. (2015). The Contrite Spirit: How the Temple Helps Us Apply Christ's Atonement. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.
- ——; Hafen, Marie K. (2018). Faith Is Not Blind. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book.
References
- ^ BYU speakers bio of Hafen
- ^ bio of Hafen when he became president of Ricks
- ^ Church News bio of Hafen, 20 April 1996
- ^ BYU Management Society St. George speaker bio on Hafen
- ^ LDS Church Almanac, 2008 Edition, p. 45
- ^ "Biography of Bruce C. Hafen". LDS Church. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
- ^ Deseret News Oct. 2, 2012
- ^ article on Hafen's appointment as head of Ricks
- ^ BYU speakers bio of Hafen
- ^ "Elder Bruce C. Hafen of the Seventy", Ensign, May 1996.
- ^ BYU speakers bio of Hafen
- ^ LDS Church bio of Hafen
- ^ Winters, Rosemarie. "Mormon conference to discuss homosexuality", The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 September 2010. Retrieved on 23 March 2020.
- ^ Scott Taylor (October 3, 2010). "Five Mormon Church leaders given emeritus status". Deseret News. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
- ^ BYU speakers bio of Hafen
- ^ Collenn McDannell Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), p. 164