228: Rethinking Prophets: Lessons from the Hebrew Bible

About this episode

The episode discusses lessons from the Hebrew Bible prophets, focusing on insights from Richard Rohr's book and the nature of prophets as 'unfinished' individuals.

This year's Sunday School curriculum is the Old Testament (better titled the Hebrew Bible). And before too long, those of us who follow the Come Follow Me calendar will begin moving into the study of the prophets Isaiah through Malachi. For most Latter-day Saints, this is generally their least favorite months of study. They don't contain much narrative, action, or other things that keep readers' attention. But are there profound lessons to be learned from the prophets and their writings? The wise and powerful writer Richard Rohr thinks so, and this episode features some of his approaches. Latter-day Faith hosts Dan Wotherspoon, Terri Petersen, and Mark Crego have each recently finished his beautiful book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom in an Age of Rage and discuss their takeaways from Rohr's book, focusing on the way we presents the prophets as teachers, but also very much themselves "works in progress." Rohr even singles out two Hebrew Bible and one New Testament prophets as "unfinished" prophets. They also focus on one of the primary reminders in Rohr's book that prophets always come from "outside" a communities' power structure. And it must be so, because only someone…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan Wotherspoon, Terri Petersen, Mark Crego

Topics covered

• prophets
• Hebrew Bible
• spiritual lessons
• Richard Rohr
• Latter-day Saints
• Come Follow Me
• unfinished prophets

Keywords

• prophets
• Hebrew Bible
• Richard Rohr
• Latter-day Saints
• spirituality
• Old Testament
• Come Follow Me

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom in an Age of Rage, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament

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