Melissa Inouye: Why Loving One Another Is More Than Bringing Casseroles

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 41 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.”

To honor the life of Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye we are revisiting this episode from the All In archives. This episode originally aired on July 10, 2019.

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?

“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.” —Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

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0:00.0	I will never forget the first time someone I'd interviewed passed away. I had
0:08.0	only ever spoken to the woman on the phone and I cried the entire day. For the second time this month an all-end guest has passed away.
0:16.0	Melissa Inoue passed away early Tuesday morning and is an example of someone who, while seemingly taken far too soon, gave this world all she had to offer until the very end.
0:28.0	I first met and interviewed Melissa in July of 2019. She was already sick at the time and in fact at the
0:36.4	very beginning of our interview she informed me that her cancer had just
0:40.3	returned. The amazing thing to me is that Melissa didn't just live just to the very end of her life. Just last year a series of essays titled Every Needful
0:55.8	Thing was published after being compiled by two incredible women, Melissa In Away and
1:01.8	Kate Holbrook, both of whom have now passed away.
1:05.2	Kate and Melissa had a shared experience of, as Melissa once put it, living in the shadow of
1:11.5	death and they wasted no time here on earth.
1:15.0	They worked tirelessly.
1:17.0	Today we honor Melissa's life by re-erring her all-in interview.
1:21.8	Please join me and praying for Melissa's husband, Joseph,
1:25.2	and their young family.
1:27.6	On this week's episode of All-In, you will hear Melissa Inouye tell me that she has just learned her cancer has returned.
1:39.0	It was my understanding going into the interview that she was in remission and her words
1:43.9	caught me off guard. I didn't know what to say and the reaction you will hear is
1:49.0	very raw. I'm sure those listening can relate but I've since replayed that portion of our conversation in my mind over and over again
1:58.1	wondering if I should have responded differently in her new book Crossingsings, Inouye writes that cancer pulls a bit of the veil from one's eyes.
2:08.0	One can suddenly see very clearly the presence of death.
2:12.0	Death will come to all of us eventually, she writes,
2:15.0	but most are used to thinking of it as far, far away.
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