Flight and Faith: Latinx Migration in the Art of Belief (2023-2029)

A project by the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center in the historic Lower East Side of Manhattan to implement a multi-year national initiative that centers the role of religious Latin American art in the public discourse on immigration.

Common Good Character Trust (2024-Ongoing)

Member of the Common Good Character Trust funded by Wake Forest University’s Educating Character Initiative under the leadership of Dr. Emily Hunt-Hinojosa. An interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration seeking to create new approaches to character education based on individual and cultural formation.

Prosperity Gospel Latinos Make America Great Again

This book aims to provide cultural and theological insights into why some Latinos went agianst their self interest and supported Donald Trump for president. The central claim of this book is that conservative Christianity, and Prosperity Gospel specifically, primes adherents to accept fascist tactics. Their doctrines and practices normalize anti-democratic tendencies that shapes world views and encourages adherents to support authoritarian leaders. Ultimately, Lin explores the ways that Prosperity Gospel Christianity paved the way for authoritarianism in the 21st Century. [Manuscript in Progress]

Therapeutic Multiracialism

In 2016, Lin was awarded a research grant from the Louisville Institute to study multiracial churches and communities across the United States. Lin visited Christian churches and communities that made racial diversity in their congregations a primary objective. The majority of these churches offered what Lin called therapeutic multiracialism. The benefits of interracial fellowship were largely reaped by the white members, often at a cost to members of color with little real progress toward racial inequalities. [Manuscript in progress]