Books like The Broken Heart: Applying the Atonement to Life's Experiences
The Broken Heart: Applying the Atonement to Life's Experiences
So when I saw this book on my bookshelf I said, A. What is this book doing here.B. This book looks boring as sin. (The cover was horrible)C. I'm never going to read it.D. Why am I spending so much time making a list about this book?But then, just to spite myself I began reading it. And was sorely disappointed in my initial prejudice. This was a practical book on the powers of the atonement, which is something I've been wanting to learn more about. It is not nebulous and motivational as much as brass-tacks definitions and enlightening steps toward understanding and taking full advantage of the atonement. And Bruce Hafen is a great author, very compelling with wonderful references and tie-ins to modern literature and philosophy outside the mormon church. You can tell he is a lawyer as he lays out the doctrine without much wiggle room.Insert cliché "book by it's cover" closing statement here.