Summary: The recent official statement on Race and the Priesthood has highlighted in a fresh way the difficult issue of prophets and apostles who are subject to the influences of culture and largely unexamined assumptions of their day that color their understandings of and impact their statements about sometimes very important matters. If this is so, how then should we view them and the nature of "prophetic inspiration"? What does it mean for us as church members when we come to understand "revelation" as a much more human-saturated process than the "hotline phone with God" model that we perhaps once assumed? In this episode, Joanna Brooks, Ronda Callister and Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon go personal on this subject, sharing their own wrestles and journeys to peace within Mormonism, including coming to honor even very human leaders who don’t always know or teach God’s will. As Brooks puts it within the discussion, how is it that she feels comfortable saying Mormonism can be both "special and wrong"? We hope you’ll listen and then share your own ideas and personal wrestles with these issues!
