{"product_id":"we-mend-with-gold","title":"We Mend with Gold","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-generation Chinese American and essayist Kristin T. Lee traces the fracture lines of Christian faith, church, belonging, and immigrant identity and helps us experience liberation from both the constrictive theology of conservative evangelicalism and the heavy weight of Asian immigrant church norms.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A smart, searching look at the need for more inclusive forms of Christianity in the U.S.\" —\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003estarred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA daughter of the Asian American church wrestles with faith, exile, and belonging.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a Christian has nothing to do with being Chinese American--that's what Kristin T. Lee learned as a child. A fissure between her identity and what she was told to believe opened wide. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Mend with Gold\u003c\/em\u003e, she asks: What if we can bridge the divide?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee describes both the breaking of her young faith and the sacred art of repair. She examines how immigrant churches often assimilate to Western theology, even as they offer crucial spaces of belonging. Through lyrical storytelling about her upbringing in Asian immigrant churches as well as in white evangelicalism, Lee wrestles with history, ancestral stories, and what it means to follow Jesus. What might it look like to expand beyond the scripts we've been given and bring our questions to God--as well as building solidarity with the marginalized?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Black, Asian, and other minoritized theologians, Lee separates the theology of empire from what Jesus preached and lived. Writing of the fractures in our families, churches, and the world, Lee relies on the Japanese art of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ekintsugi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto describe the resplendence of a faith that repairs but doesn't paper over. And she offers pieces of the Asian American experience--such as liminality, displacement, and exile--that attend to the breaking and the mending, the wounding and the healing. How might marginality bring us closer to God and others? What do we lose when we \"make it\"? And when we expand our notion of who belongs to our family, what do we gain?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe can repair the seams between our cultural identities and our faith, Lee claims. By leaving room for mystery, we encounter God's love. We mend the fractures--between and within us--with gold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristin T. Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a writer whose work has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSojourners\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and a primary care physician serving Boston's Chinatown community. She writes about faith, culture, books, and solidarity at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Embers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and is a contributing columnist to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Covenant Companion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Her passion is highlighting literature written by Asian and BIPOC authors via book reviews and reading groups on Instagram. Lee's work is informed by her experiences as an adoptive mother, host to refugees, and friend to those affected by incarceration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadleaf Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52436126597409,"sku":"9798889835028","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0808\/8521\/9617\/files\/wemendwithgold.jpg?v=1773275478","url":"https:\/\/www.onwaverly.com\/products\/we-mend-with-gold","provider":"On Waverly","version":"1.0","type":"link"}