![]() ![]() And yet there was that element in the Church that tried to get him bumped, because he didn’t teach what they taught. ![]() I watched him save kids that nobody else could. I worked with George for many years down at the University of Southern California. Philosophically, they could go with you on the trip through your frustration in thinking, and bring you back. The George Boyds and the Lowell Bennions kept people in the Church whom nobody else could have. And yet there were those in the system who tried to weed him out, because he kept the President McKay kind of vision open…. There isn’t a kinder, more gentle Christian in the world. I would be totally surprised if all of heaven isn’t a Lowell Bennion philosophy. There’s one of the sweetest, great Christians of the world. ![]() If it hadn’t been for President McKay, we’d have had a fiasco on Lowell Bennion. Even poor Lowell Bennion got thrown into some of that. Here I am a young buck coming into the system, and the circulation is, “Let’s excommunicate the Sterling McMurrins of the Church, and weed out the liberals.” That got thrown around a lot. After spending a decade as a teacher in the Institutes of Religion, Dunn was called by McKay to be a General Authority at the unusually young age of thirty-nine: Dunn, of the First Council of Seventy, spoke of McKay’s attitude toward those who were outside the mainstream-not in action, but in thought. ![]()
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