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Deborah Jian Lee

Deborah Jian Lee is an award-winning journalist, podcast host of Kaleidoscope, and the author of the critically acclaimed book Rescuing Jesus: How People of Color, Women & Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelicalism (Beacon, 2015). She has worked as a staff reporter for the Associated Press, taught journalism at Columbia University, and written for Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Forbes, Slate, Reuters, GOOD, WBEZ, WNYC and others. She lives in Chicago.

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Religion Dispatches
It’s been a little over a year since the president first took office, and the role of white evangelical support for Donald Trump remains under the microscope. Last year I wrote a story about the…
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Religion Dispatches
People of color are a few short decades away from making up the majority of the American Christian population, according to demographers and church growth experts. Yet their stories, theologies and…
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Religion Dispatches
This is how quickly it happened. One moment we were passing sumptuous kebob platters around the table making polite introductions, and the next we were swapping trauma stories that we—all people of…
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