We Mend with Gold
An Immigrant Daughter's Reckoning with American Christianity

This book is for my 26-year-old self. There is a place for you at Jesus’ feet. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. And know that if you start looking, you will find others who feel the same way as you. Who are disturbed by certain constrictive theologies. Who feel unseen in the white normativity of t......more

In the Japanese art of kintsugi, broken pottery is repaired with gold. It honors the brokenness and celebrates transformation. Connecting this to the immigrant experience, in which identity is broken and reformed into something new, is thoughtful and profound. I chose this book because I enjoy and a......more

This was a case of meeting the right book at the right time. As I read the book I flew through it quickly only stopping to snap pics of great paragraphs and sharing them in my family chat room. I even would read aloud quotations in the evenings and say to my mother, “Listen to this! Isn’t it great?”......more

WE MEND WITH GOLD deeply explores the intersections between Asian American diaspora and Christianity from a Chinese American immigrant daughter's perspective. "The idea that theology can and even should be done from a place of marginality rather than of centrality excites me." Kristin opens the conv......more

I have read The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone and The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen—two books that deeply marked me and helped shape my Christian faith. We Mend With Gold by Kristin T. Lee takes that lineage further, speaking directly to my lived experience as an immigrant, a first-gene......more