🧑🏽 Your Host, Bruce Reyes‑ChowRev. Bruce Reyes-Chow is a 3rd Generation, GenX, Filipino/Chinese American and an active speaker, writer, coach, and podcaster on topics of faith, leadership, activism, culture, race, and technology. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he also works with organizations on immigration, decarceration, and Palestinian liberation. He is the author of six books, most recently Everything Good about God is True: Choosing Faith with his next book, "Prophets, Priests, Pastors & Poets: Being and Becoming the Ressurected Christ," due out in Fall 2026. You can subscribe to his newsletter and podcast, The Amalgamation at www.reyes-chow.com and connect on most social platforms via @breyeschow. He and his wife live a thriving empty-nesting life in the San Francisco Bay Area.✊🏽 About Our GuestKristin T. Lee is a writer whose work has appeared in Christianity Today and Sojourners, and 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. We Mend with Gold is her debut book. Find out more at her website: kristintlee.com, on Instagram @ktlee.writes or on Substack: The Embers.🎧 Episode SummaryHer book We Mend with God takes its title from kintsugi — the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold — and uses it as a lens for how Asian Americans can hold their fractures, their faith, and their histories together rather than hiding them.Kristen grew up in Iowa City as the daughter of Hong Kong immigrants, carried a layered faith through Harvard and med school, and quietly started falling apart theologically along the way. This episode traces her slow, often lonely journey out of conservative evangelicalism — and what it took to find her way back to a faith that actually fit her whole self.They also get into the writing process, her hilariously bad working title, and why she's desperately hoping her parents never read the book.We Mend with God is out now from Broadleaf Books.💌 Thanks for Listening!The Amalgamation Podcast, paired with The Amalgamation Newsletter, focuses on social justice, pop culture, digital community, left-leaning faith, and more. With humor, kindness, and conviction, each episode shares passions and projects and invites the listener to join Bruce and his guests to co-conspire for good. It is hosted by Bruce Reyes-Chow, produced by Emmie Hix, and edited by Dessiree McFarland, with music by Merissa Magdael-Lauron. The Amalgamation Podcast Bookshop Bookstore and all show inquiries can be sent to: [email protected].🏷 Tags / Hashtags#TheAmalgamationPodcast #TheAmalgamation #brucereyeschow #kristintlee