Journalist Jennifer Lin will discuss Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family, a heartrending family memoir that follows the course of five generations of the Lin family. From the first convert in a fishing village in coastal Fujian to an Ivy League-educated Anglican priest and the independent religious leader Watchman Nee, the trajectory of the Lin family over the past 150 years serves as a window into the early days and evolution of Christianity in modern China.

Jennifer Lin is an award-winning journalist, author and documentary filmmaker. For 31 years, Jennifer worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer as a reporter, including posts as a foreign correspondent in China, a financial correspondent on Wall Street, and a national correspondent in Washington, DC. In 2017, Jennifer published a family memoir, Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family (Rowman & Littlefield). The book, which chronicles five generations of the Lin family, was heralded by broadcaster Connie Chung as “thoroughly gripping.” She and her husband, Bill Stieg, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and have two grown children.