Author Talk With Jennifer Lin, Author of ‘Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family’

Join the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Monday, October 9 as they welcome author Jennifer Lin for a discussion of her book “Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family”.

The program will be held at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum Theater at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. No reservations are needed.

A Cappella Books will have copies of Shanghai Faithful available for purchase and signing. Shanghai Faithful is both a touching family memoir and a chronicle of the astonishing spread of Christianity in China. Five generations of the Lin family—buffeted by history’s crosscurrents and personal strife—bring to life an epoch that is still unfolding.

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A compelling cast—a poor fisherman, a doctor who treated opium addicts, an Ivy League-educated priest, and the charismatic preacher Watchman Nee—sets the book in motion. Veteran journalist Jennifer Lin takes readers from remote nineteenth-century mission outposts to the thriving house churches and cathedrals of today’s China. The Lin family—and the book’s central figure, the Reverend Lin Pu-chi—offer witness to China’s tumultuous past, up to and beyond the betrayals and madness of the Cultural Revolution, when the family’s resolute faith led to years of suffering. Forgiveness and redemption bring the story full circle. With its sweep of history and the intimacy of long-hidden family stories, Shanghai Faithful offers a fresh look at Christianity in China—past, present, and future.

For more information call the Carter: Library at 404-865-7109. Free Parking