Disciple's Life

Compassionate, witty, politically astute, and spiritually authentic, Neal Maxwell has always been passionately “engaged” in life's battles.

This instinct for action impelled him into the infantry in World War II where, on Okinawa, “shaking and crying in a foxhole full of mud and foul water, he pledged his life to the Lord” and was miraculously spared.

An Apostle since 1981, Elder Maxwell has engaged a broader struggle, that “between the sacred and the secular, the tension between faith and re...