Melissa Inouye | Can You Name Five Women In Church History?

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Can you name five women from Church History? In this episode, Church historian and Harvard PhD Melissa Inouye shares the intentional effort to include Latter-day Saint women in the Church’s Global Histories project, with a goal that more will know and learn their names and stories. She reminds listeners that because the majority of Church members live outside the United States, most of our history as a Church is also outside the United States. Sharing the stories of six faithful Latter-day Saint women from Nigeria, Mongolia, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Honduras, and South Korea, Melissa offers her perspective on how we can be strengthened and unified as we see “their” stories as “our” stories. Resources: Global Histories https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/landing/global-histories?lang=eng Latter-day Saint Women Podcast episode: Ryan Saltzgiver | Women of Faith: Stories from Global Histories https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/latter-day-saints-channel/listen/series/latter-day-saint-women/ryan-saltzgiver-women-of-faith-stories-from-global-histories?lang=eng Church History blog: Global Histories https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/blog/global-histories?lang=eng Transcript: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/inspiration/latter-day-saints-channel/bc/mormon-channel/images/audio/lds-women/pdf/Melissa-Inouye.pdf

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:11.0	You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women of faith today.
0:16.0	I'm Shailen Back.
0:18.0	And I'm Carly Gehman. We are your co-hosts. And today we are so excited to welcome Melissa Wei Ting in a way as our guest.
0:25.0	Melissa, welcome.
0:25.9	Thanks so much for having me.
0:27.0	It's really fun to be here.
0:28.1	Thank you.
0:28.6	We feel so fortunate to have Melissa joining us today.
0:31.9	And this is an episode.
0:33.5	Shailin and I have anticipated for more than a year.
0:35.8	So we're excited to have you. To briefly introduce our guest, Melissa received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and served as a senior lecture in Chinese Studies at the University of Auckland.
0:48.3	Melissa was born in California, is a fourth generation Chinese, Japanese, American, and most of her adult life has been
0:55.8	spent outside the United States. She and her husband have four children, and Melissa is a beautiful
1:00.7	writer. And we are so grateful to have her in the studio today to talk about her work on the
1:05.5	Church's Global History's Project, something she's been working on as a historian.
1:09.5	And longtime listeners of the podcast will remember that we published an episode last year with Melissa's colleague, Ryan Salzgiver, and he gave an introduction to the Global History's project and shared just a few of the personal narratives of women around the world who accepted the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
1:24.6	And to this day, this is one of our favorite episodes, and we'll
1:28.2	make sure to link to it in our show notes. And there are so, so many more stories to share,
1:32.7	which is why we invited Melissa here today to continue that conversation. So we really hope
1:37.4	our listeners will enjoy it. So to jump right in, Melissa, for those who are not familiar with
1:42.2	the Global History's Project, will you just give a brief summary of this effort? Yeah, you can find the Global Histories Project, will you just give
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