The Embers
Kristin T. Lee, Lisa Sharon HarperDispatches from my life, including musings on faith, culture, literature, doctoring, parenting, Asian American experiences, and theology
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| Issues | 14 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 years ago |
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Two new books on race and the church
Hahrie Han’s UNDIVIDED and Eliza Griswold’s CIRCLE OF HOPE
For most of my adult life, I’ve attended the same church. It’s a church I love deeply, but I can’t help being curious—what would it look like to be part of a more radical church, o...
The necessity of lament and doubt
Lament is having a heyday in some evangelical and post-evangelical subcultures, and for good reason. It’s a corrective to the triumphalism of American Christianity as well as a necessary response to the pain and evil of both current day and...
How reading the Bible as literature broke me...
If you’ve ever struggled with, well, reading Genesis, this book is for you.
Recalling my freshman year of college fills me with a sort of pity for the naive, idealistic, bright-eyed girl from Iowa who believed that goodness and integrity w...
Dear Elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss by Mimi Khúc
Mimi Khúc opens her treatise on Asian American unwellness with a bold claim: that current psychiatric models of mental health are failing us, especially along the axes of race and ableism. Instead, she offers up what she calls a pedagogy of...
The Bluest Eye, the blondest hair
Oh, just me and one of the greatest books of all time
In first grade, I was part of our local Girl Scouts troop for all of one year. We met in the basement of the Presbytarian church down the street from my elementary school, and I remembe...
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Author of We Mend with Gold: An Immigrant Daughter's Reckoning with American Christianity, out with Broadleaf Books in April 2026. Writer, reader, book reviewer on IG @ktlee.writes. Embracing imperfection, hope, justice, and joy.
President/Founder of FreedomRoad.us, writer, podcaster, public theologian, author of Fortune: How Race Broke My Family And The World—And How To Repair It All
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