Ep. 97 - Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye - Bald Asian American Latter Day Saint Woman Scholar

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Melissa is a brilliant scholar and author of the new book "Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar's Ventures through Life, Death, Cancer & Motherhood (Not Necessarily in that Order)". Melissa has a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard. She currently teaches at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. We met at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU where she was speaking to support her book. In the episode, we talk about growing up in California, her mission, her studies of Christianity in Asia, her family, battling cancer, what being a feminist means to her, and the church in Asia and New Zealand. Melissa is so engaging and her perspectives are brilliant.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
0:11.3	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:26.4	Thank you. organization unless otherwise stated. Hello, friends.
0:27.4	Welcome to episode number 97 of the Latter Day Lives podcast.
0:31.6	I'm your host, Sean Rappear, hard to believe we have made it to 97 episodes.
0:37.3	With episode number 100 coming up, we actually want to do something kind of fun.
0:42.2	We're going to do a behind the scenes look at the podcast and kind of talk through the history of how it came together, some of our favorite moments and a little bit of a retrospective.
0:53.2	It's going to be a lot of fun. We've actually
0:55.3	had this request from several of our listeners, and we want you to participate. So if you have
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1:41.4	Plus, if you have any questions, that'll be a big part of it. We're going to be
1:45.3	answering tons of listener questions should be a lot of fun. Before we get into this week's
1:51.5	episode, I do want to thank two new reviewers. First of all, on Facebook, Mike Pilke, who is such a good
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