(1992), Readings in Organizational Behavior, Allyn & Bacon, ISBN 7-2 (1991), Organizational Behavior: Understanding and Managing People at Work, Allyn & Bacon, ISBN 1-3 Bednar at the April 2008 BYU graduation ceremony Bednar with his wife, Susan, in 2018 at a BYU Devotional. Personal life īednar married Susan Kae Robinson in the Salt Lake Temple on March 20, 1975. In 2016, Bednar attracted media attention when he claimed the church doesn't discriminate against gay and lesbian people because "there are no homosexual members of the church." He stated that being gay or lesbian is not the primary identity of individuals, but rather that each individual is first a child of God. īednar addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on May 26, 2022. This is believed to be the first time the entire First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles were in the same location outside the United States. Rolfe Kerrīednar attended the 2019 dedication of the Rome Italy Temple with all 15 of the LDS Church apostles. Bednar at the April 2008 BYU Commencement with Cecil O. In 2016, Bednar dedicated the Star Valley Wyoming Temple, the LDS Church's 154th temple. LDS Church service īednar has served in the LDS Church as a bishop (Fayetteville Ward, 1987), twice as stake president (Fort Smith Arkansas Stake, 1987–1991 and Rogers Arkansas Stake, 1991–1995), regional representative (1994–95), and area seventy (1997–2004). There, he oversaw and managed the transition of the school from, what was at the time, the largest private junior college in the United States, Ricks College, to a four-year university, BYU–Idaho. īednar served as the president of Ricks College/BYU–Idaho in Rexburg, Idaho, from July 1, 1997, to December 1, 2004. He was twice the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Business Administration. In 1994, he was recognized as the outstanding teacher at the University of Arkansas and received the Burlington Northern Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching. Walton College of Business until 1992, and was then the director of the Management Decision-Making Lab from 1992 to 1997. He returned to the University of Arkansas in 1987, serving as the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the Sam M. He was an assistant professor of management at Texas Tech University from 1984 to 1986. įrom 1980 to 1984, Bednar was an assistant professor of management at the University of Arkansas College of Business Administration (now Sam M. He received a doctorate degree in organizational behavior from Purdue University in 1980. He served as a full-time missionary in Southern Germany and then attended Brigham Young University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication in 1976 and a Master of Arts degree in organizational communication in 1977. His mother came from a long line of Latter-day Saints, but his father did not join the church until Bednar was in his late twenties. Life and career īednar was born in Oakland, California to Lavina Whitney Bednar and Anthony George Bednar. He is currently the sixth most senior apostle in the church. As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Bednar is recognized by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator. Uchtdorf were called to fill the vacancies created by the July 2004 deaths of quorum members David B. He was ordained an apostle on October 7, 2004, by church president Gordon B. At 52 years old, he is the youngest man named to that body since Dallin H. īednar was sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve on October 2, 2004. A former educator, Bednar was president of Brigham Young University–Idaho (BYU–Idaho) from 1997 to 2004. David Allan Bednar (born June 15, 1952) is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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