🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass'

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Jana Riess is one of my favorite Mormons, and Melissa was another. This is a great combination of the two. link to “The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass”

labyrinths vs. mazes

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As I blogged elsewhere a couple of days ago, I’ve recently purchased the most recent (and maybe last?) album from the folk rock Québécois band Les cowboys fringants, whose music I’ve been listening to since 2011. Their lead singer, Karl Tremblay, passed away far too young from cancer last November, which made this album a bit of a surprise, but Tremblay had managed to contribute to some of the songs before his death, and the rest of the band managed to put the rest of the album together in their grief.

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The solution to the problems that we have now is not in a perfect platform...it’s just in people. - Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye - Exponent II'

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I worked a lot with Melissa over five years, but I still didn’t know her terribly well. I didn’t know many of these things about her, and learning them just makes me miss her more. She was truly the best of Mormonism in so many ways. link to “The solution to the problems that we have now is not in a perfect platform…it’s just in people. - Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye - Exponent II”

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Courageous LDS scholar whose life and writings exemplified — and expounded on — earthly struggles dies at 44 '

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A beautiful obituary for a beautiful person. link to “Courageous LDS scholar whose life and writings exemplified — and expounded on — earthly struggles dies at 44 “

in memory of a mentor

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This morning, Mormon studies scholar Dr. Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye passed away after a years-long struggle with cancer. Melissa was an amazing scholar, fantastic mentor, and just great person, and I think a lot of people—even just those who knew her professionally—are going to be spending time writing, thinking, and crying about her today and in the weeks to come. Other people will have more, and more important, things to say than I do, but I’m deeply grateful for Melissa, and I want to show that gratitude by sharing a few thoughts of my own.