# Event Details - **Event Name**: Book discussion with author Kristin T. Lee; We Mend With Gold - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Join author Kristin T. Lee for an intimate conversation exploring the themes in her book, and considering it’s implications on our lives.About this EventJoin Us for a Book Discussion!**Childcare available - check registration email**Get ready for an inspiring chat with author Kristin T. Lee about her amazing book, We Mend With Gold. This in-person event is perfect for anyone who loves stories about resilience and healing. Come hang out, ask questions, and dive deep into the themes of the book with Kristin herself. Don’t miss out on this chance to connect and explore together!About We Mend With Gold!A daughter of the Asian American church wrestles with faith, exile, and belonging.Being a Christian has nothing to do with being ChineseAmerican--that's what Kristin T. Lee learned as a child. Afissure between her identity and what she was told to believeopened wide. In We Mend with Gold, she asks: What if wecan bridge the divide?Lee describes both the breaking of her young faith and thesacred art of repair. She examines how immigrant churchesoften assimilate to Western theology, even as they offercrucial spaces of belonging. Through lyrical storytelling abouther upbringing in Asian immigrant churches as well as inwhite evangelicalism, Lee wrestles with history, ancestralstories, and what it means to follow Jesus. What might it looklike to expand beyond the scripts we've been given and bringour questions to God--as well as building solidarity with themarginalized?Drawing on Black, Asian, and other minoritized theologians,Lee separates the theology of empire from what Jesuspreached and lived. Writing of the fractures in our families,churches, and the world, Lee relies on the Japanese art ofkintsugi to describe the resplendence of a faith that repairs butdoesn't paper over. And she offers pieces of the AsianAmerican experience--such as liminality, displacement, andexile--that attend to the breaking and the mending, thewounding and the healing. How might marginality bring uscloser to God and others? What do we lose when we "makeit"? And when we expand our notion of who belongs to ourfamily, what do we gain?We can repair the seams between our cultural identities andour faith, Lee claims. By leaving room for mystery, weencounter God's love. We mend the fractures--between andwithin us--with gold.ABOUT THE AUTHORKristin T. Lee is a writer whose work has appeared in Sojourners and Christianity Today, a primary care physician serving Boston's Chinatown community. She writes about faith, culture, books, and solidarity at The Embers and is a contributing columnist to The Covenant Companion. Her passion is highlighting literature written by Asian and BIPOC authors via book reviews and reading groups on Instagram (@ktlee.writes). Lee's work is informed by her experiences as an adoptive mother, host to refugees, and friend to those affected by incarceration. Raised in Iowa, Kristin T. Lee grew up attending her parents’ Asian immigrant evangelical church while being steeped in the white evangelical Christian culture of the Midwest. She was left, however, with a disconnect between her Chinese American identity and the American version of evangelicalism.Learn more about her at kristintlee.com. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/book-discussion-with-author-kristin-t-lee;-we-mend-with-gold/100001986664177033 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Seattle - **state**: WA - **country**: United States - **location**: Rainier Avenue Church - **lat**: 47.5496444 - **long**: -122.2768789 - **full address**: Rainier Avenue Church, 5900 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Book discussion with author Kristin T. 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