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Journalist, radio producer, professor and author Deborah Jian Lee will visit Eastern Mennonite University on Wednesday, Feb. 15.\u00a0 The 10 a.m. chapel in Lehman Auditorium and a 4 p.m. colloquium, \u201cFaith From the Margins,\u201d in the seminary’s Martin Chapel are open to the public. In addition she\u2019ll also participate in several events with students.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s work often takes her to the fringes of societies: whether of Chinese family structures or evangelical Christianity. Her first book, Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism <\/em>(Beacon Press, 2015) examines the counter-cultures of the American church.<\/p>\n

Jian Lee is currently touring the U.S. speaking about Rescuing Jesus<\/em> and the social issues it references.She’s also had a successful career as a freelance journalism. With colleague Sushma Subramanian, Lee produced an award-winning radio documentary about one of the \u201cbachelor villages\u201d of China, where aging straight men face a life without a romantic partner due to the population\u2019s gender imbalance. She has been published in The Atlantic, Forbes and Self, among others.<\/p>\n

In childhood, she joined a Chinese immigrant church, seeking solidarity in the face of racially-motivated bullying at school. However, the church\u2019s exclusion of the LGBTQ community prompted her to leave religion as a young adult.<\/p>\n

As a journalist years later, Lee encountered a pro-LGBTQ faction of Christianity \u2013 an \u201cunderground\u201d queer group at the evangelical Biola University. \u201cThose queer and ally evangelical college kids embodied the very teachings of Jesus that compelled me to call myself a Christian back in my youth,\u201d says Jian Lee in an article for \u201cBelieve Out Loud,\u201d an online Christian network that advocates for LGBT equality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re looking at the millenials, you\u2019re definitely seeing this reinvention of what church is,\u201d she said in an episode of National Public Radio\u2019s \u201cOn Point. \u201cI see the church changing radically, and I see churches who are able to invite and readily include and celebrate the diversity of humanity \u2013 those are the ones that are going to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more<\/h3>\n

Lee joins two other experts to speak about millenials in the church in an interview <\/a>with Tom Ashbrook for “On Point.”<\/p>\n

Read a review<\/a> of ‘Rescuing Jesus’ in the Los Angeles Review of Books.<\/p>\n

In Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast<\/a>, Jian Lee discusses her book, intersectionality, purity culture and her own spiritual story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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