![]() ![]() LI Yong, Director General of UNIDO, reported that in 2020, Meanwhile, international civil servants, taking a somewhat broader view, have identified a number of additional challenges that all of us here on earth will eventually have to grapple with. Utah is in the midst of a very, very significant drought which poses a challenge for every individual and industry in Utah. Blake Moore, R-Utah, has also joined the chorus: We need everyone in the state to understand right now that we’re heading into one of the worst droughts and potentially one of the worst fire seasons that we’ve seen. 300 West in May 2021 that would lead one to conclude that all this talk about climate change is really just a smokescreen for liberal sophists to push an anti-nuclear-family agenda rather than a sincere expression of concern about an actual emergency, but even Utah’s governor has acknowledged that something dire is going on: I just don’t know what the view is like from 50 N. Given the enormity of the economic devastation worldwide wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic and the severe and mounting effects of climate change on us all, but particularly vulnerable populations and countries, I appreciate that Elder Callister’s piece grants that poverty, pandemics and climate change deserve attention, though I have to wonder how much he is interested in the latter given his assertion that Satan is “disguis his plan of attack with alluring labels such as ‘environmental emergency’ for promotion of a zero-growth population agenda.” It is, as some have noted, to put an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff rather than a fence at the top. To put our prime focus on other challenges is to strike at the leaves, not the root, of the problem. If you were asked, “What is the greatest challenge facing our nation today?” how would you respond? The economy, national security, immigration, gun control, poverty, racism, crime, pandemics, climate change? While each of these is a valid concern and deserves attention, I do not believe that any of them strikes at the heart of our greatest challenge - a return to family and moral values. Callister expresses the hope that his readers would be “archdefenders of the nuclear family and God’s moral values” and weighs in on the importance we ought to attach to “the essentiality of the family unit to the well-being of society”: Many look to his remarks because of his talent for teaching complex principles clearly and powerfully.An official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently printed an editorial entitled “A fence at the top or an ambulance at the bottom?” in which emeritus General Authority Seventy and former Sunday School general president Elder Tad R. He has delivered countless addresses and has authored the books The Blueprint of Christ’s Church, The Infinite Atonement, and The Inevitable Apostasy and the Promised Restoration. He served in the Presidency of the Seventy from 2011 until 2014, when he was called as the Sunday School general president.īrother Callister blesses Church members worldwide with his insights into doctrinal principles and his stalwart testimony of God, Jesus Christ, and the restored gospel. He served as a counselor and then as president of the Pacific Area, based in Auckland, New Zealand. While serving as a mission president in the Canada Toronto East Mission in 2008, Callister was called to be a General Authority. He later served as a regional representative and as an Area Seventy for the North America Northwest Area. He was the president of the Verdugo Hills Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and he has also served as a bishop and stake president. In addition to his devotion to his family, he has also been involved in his community and especially in service to the Lord. Numbers and clauses have not, however, been the focus of Callister’s life. He spent most of his career practicing tax law in California. Education & CareerĬallister earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from BYU and went on to earn a juris doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree specializing in tax law from New York University Law School. They were married in December 1968 and have six children and many grandchildren. When he returned, he attended Brigham Young University, where he met Kathryn Louise Saporiti. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Eastern Atlantic States, based in Washington, DC. Tad Richards Callister was born December 17, 1945, in Glendale, California. Callister has a family legacy of Church leadership, and he augments that legacy with his own distinguished service. ![]() ![]() ![]() A scholar, tax law professional, husband, father, and General Authority, Tad R. ![]()
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