Faith Resurrected: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity

Faith Resurrected: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity
Sunday, November 15, 2026 | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
National Presbyterian Church | 4101 Nebraska Avenue, Washington, DC  20016

On November 15, 2026, the Reformed Institute of Metropolitan Washington is pleased to welcome Kristin T. Lee, author of the memoir We Mend with Gold, for a free presentation, “Faith Resurrected: An Immigrant Daughter’s Reckoning with American Christianity.”

The in-person event will take place from 6:30 to 8 PM at the National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Avenue, Washington, DC 20016. Free parking is available in the church lot.

Kristin T. Lee is a writer whose work has appeared in Christianity Today and Sojourners, and she is also a primary care physician serving Boston’s Chinatown community.

In We Mend with Gold, Lee—a daughter of the Asian American church— wrestles with faith, exile, and belonging. Being a Christian has nothing to do with being Chinese American—that’s what Lee learned as a child. This opened a fissure between her identity and what she was told to believe. In the book she asks: What if we can bridge the divide?

Drawing 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 kintsugi to 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?

Venue: National Presbyterian Church