Melissa Inouye: Why Loving One Another is More Than Bringing Casseroles
All In
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🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Identity, creating understanding, covenants, a worldwide Church, faith crises, change in the Church—these are topics Melissa Inouye, a scholar, addresses in an effort to explain how she has "found the fruits of this life (the life of a Latter-day Saint) to be worthwhile—costly, to be sure, but also rich and nourishing, a source of deep joy."
"I believe that Christ is here in the Church and I've felt the power of God. And so, having had those experiences, I am absolutely committed to being where I am."
Show Notes:
1:51- A Latter-day Saint Seven Days a Week
2:56- The Church Influencing Worldview
6:38- Lessons Learned From Being a Missionary
12:14- Belonging and Identity
18:44- Wins and Losses
20:57- Creating Unity in the Church
23:41- Helping Amidst Faith Crises
29:56- An Evolving Church
34:48- Cancer
36:47- What Does It Mean to Be All In The Gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of All In, you will hear Melissa Inoue tell me that she has just learned |
| 0:06.0 | her cancer has returned. It was my understanding going into the interview that she was in remission, |
| 0:12.2 | and her words caught me off guard. I didn't know what to say, and the reaction you will hear is very raw. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm sure those listening can relate, but I've since replayed that portion of our conversation in my |
| 0:24.8 | mind over and over again, wondering if I should have responded differently. In her new book, |
| 0:31.0 | Crossings, Inoue writes that cancer pulls a bit of the veil from one's eyes. One can suddenly see |
| 0:38.4 | very clearly the presence of death. Death will come to all of us eventually, she writes, but most are |
| 0:45.4 | used to thinking of it as far, far away. Now death is an open door. I walk past every day. |
| 0:53.2 | So what does this look like? How does it shape your worldview? Which thoughts would you want to |
| 0:58.8 | make sure you've passed along? These are the thoughts we explore with Inoue today. Melissa Inoue is a |
| 1:06.0 | senior lecturer in Asian studies at the University of Auckland. She received her PhD from Harvard |
| 1:13.2 | University. She leads the Global Mormon Studies Research Network and is a member of the Advisory |
| 1:19.5 | Board of the Neil A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU. She and her husband, |
| 1:26.3 | Joseph, are the parents of four children. Her new book, Crossings, is a series of essays dedicated |
| 1:33.2 | to them. This is All-in, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean |
| 1:41.6 | to be All-in the Gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Jones and I'm honored to have Melissa Inoue |
| 1:48.4 | with me today. Melissa, welcome. Thanks for having me. I really love in the intro of this book, |
| 1:55.3 | Crossings, how you write, I am not a Latter-day Saint only on Sunday morning, but in everything I do, |
| 2:02.3 | and in relation to everyone I meet, I wanted to kind of have a conversation today if it's okay with |
| 2:08.3 | you about identity and about how that relates to our membership in the church and our desire to be |
| 2:15.2 | disciples of Jesus Christ. And so in relation to this statement about not being a Latter-day Saint |
| 2:21.4 | only on Sunday morning, what does it mean to be a Latter-day Saint in everything that you do? |
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