Richard Cook is Associate Professor of Church History and Missions at Logos Evangelical Seminary in El Monte, California and serves as Director of the M.A.I.C.S. Program. He came to Logos in 2011. Dr. Cook served as a missionary and seminary professor in Taiwan for over ten years, and before coming to Logos he taught Missions and Chinese Church History at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago (2003-2011). He has MDiv and ThM degrees from TEDS and a PhD in Modern Chinese History from the University of Iowa. He is the author of Darkest Before the Dawn: A Brief History of the Rise of Christianity in China, published by Pickwick Publications (2021) and Expanding the Boundaries: 23 People Who Built the Christian Church, (為神拓疆的工匠──23位貫穿教會歷史的精品人物) published by Tien Dao Publishing House (2022) (in Chinese).

Richard and his wife Pei Fang live in Glendora, CA; they have three adult children.