About Our Guest
Melinda Wheelwright Brown (Mindy) earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University (1992) and is a respected teacher and public speaker. She has a passion for solving problems, particularly those faced by women. This has led to her involvement in and support of several nonprofit organizations, including Fight the New Drug, Days for Girls, Better Days 2020, and the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, where she currently chairs the board.
She hopes to continue graduate work in the intersection of theology and women’s studies in the years ahead. She and her husband, Doug, have four children and have recently entered the absolutely delightful world of grandparenthood. Their nest is almost empty so they spend lots of time biking in Provo Canyon, playing games, and singing Beatles songs with Doug on guitar.
Follow her on Instagram: @brave.like.eve
About the Book
EVE AND ADAM: DISCOVERING THE BEAUTIFUL BALANCE
As the first who chose to cross the threshold into mortality, Eve, as her Hebrew name implies, is truly the personification of Life. Together with Adam, Eve ushered in mortality and the chance for eternal progress. Her experiences cannot be separated from Adam’s, but to understand their mission, we must first restore Eve to her proper, elevated place—a noble position beside Adam. Examining truths about Eve allows us to better understand Eve and Adam’s mission and their beautiful, balanced interdependence. Understanding their mission provides meaning, encouragement, and direction for each of us along our complex and sometimes thorny paths home.
Eve and Adam offers a fresh and insightful perspective into the perfect plan of happiness. With clarity and careful thought, it presents a solid case for the necessity of a firm understanding of the honor due to our glorious Mother Eve as well as Father Adam. Simultaneously, Eve and Adam provides an opportunity for deep pondering and reflection on how our mortal experiences, coupled with our Savior’s support, can facilitate the progress and learning needed to exalt each of us day by day, one step at a time. Eve’s and Adam’s story, then, deeply matters to ours.
Interview Timestamps:
0:00- Getting to know Mindy Brown- early life, growing up on opposite coasts, family
15:33- Publishing family history collections
19:43- Eve and Adam: Discovering the Beautiful Balance – About the title of the book
26:10- Shifts in the treatment/regard of women among members of the church and Christianity as a whole
28:51- Learning more about Eve- improvements in linguistics
42:58- Addressing pushback against the books title; connection to heavenly mother
45:40- How “representation matters” in relation to Eve and Adam; the symbolism of the apple
49:57- Comparison to Heavenly parents
51:35- How to get Melinda Brown’s book, Eve and Adam
52:20- Ending Questions
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