Re-Release of Living Faith Lecture: Making Zion with Melissa Inouye

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Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, our longtime associate at the Maxwell Institute, died on April 23rd, 2024. We join with many in mourning her loss and celebrating the remarkable legacy she left in the form of books, articles, and lots and lots of podcasts and videos. Melissa was a gifted speaker, warm, funny, faithful, and so smart.We wanted to re-release some of the Maxwell Institute interviews and lectures she delivered over the years. We are delighted to re-release her 2019 Living Faith Lecture, which she titled Making Zion. Melissa delivered this lecture here at BYU to celebrate the recent publication of her memoir, entitled Crossings. I hope you'll be as moved by Melissa's words in this lecture as I was.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Maxwell Institute's channel. My name is Rosalind Welch, and today we have
0:07.5	something really special to share with you. We have been mourning the loss of our beloved colleague,
0:14.8	Melissa Waite Singh, in a way. Melissa was so much more than just a colleague. She was a friend, she was a mentor, and she was an
0:23.9	inspiration here to us at the Maxwell Institute. So today we are delighted to re-release her 2019
0:31.6	Living Faith lecture, which she titled Making Zion. Melissa delivered this lecture here at BYU in 2019 to celebrate the recent publication of her memoir,
0:43.7	entitled Crossings.
0:45.3	But if you listen carefully, you'll find in this lecture the unmistakable seeds of her next book,
0:52.1	which would be titled Sacred Struggle.
0:54.8	Sacred Struggle was published last year in 2023 by Desiret Book.
1:00.0	Just the week before she delivered this lecture, Melissa had learned that her cancer had returned.
1:07.5	And so she was able and willing to speak with real vulnerability and urgency to the question
1:14.1	of what matters most in this life. And what she told us is that the worst thing we can face
1:22.9	is not injustice, it's not suffering, it's not even death. As consequential as those things can be,
1:30.4	the worst thing, the real tragedy she taught us would be to live life in a way that requires
1:37.7	no transformative struggle from ourselves and that makes no difference for good in the lives of others. Melissa urged us to opt in
1:48.6	to that transformative struggle, to be faithful to God, to be faithful to each other, and to be faithful
1:56.1	to our ideal of Zion. I hope that you'll be as lifted and is moved by Melissa's words in her
2:04.3	lecture, making Zion as I was.
2:15.9	Everyone, welcome. We are very, very happy to welcome you to this Maxwell Institute
2:24.3	lecture, guest lecture by Dr. Melissa Inouye. My name is Spencer Flumann. I'm the executive director of the Nele Maxwell Institute here at BYU, and I'm very pleased to welcome all of you.
2:36.0	We're going to have an opening prayer for this event, and that will be given by Dr. Janice Johnson,
2:44.0	a research associate at the Maxwell Institute, and thereafter I will introduce our speaker.
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