Melissa Inouye

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye is a scholar of modern Chinese history and religion and works as a historian at the Church History Department of The Chur of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the author of China and the True Jesus; Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church and Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman scholar’s ventures through life, death, motherhood, and cancer (not necessarily in that order). Melissa’s new book is called “Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance.” She enjoys hiking and digging in the dirt with her husband, four children, and Labrador-cattle dog cross, Bertie.