Far from Home with Mabel Ninan

Far from Home with Mabel Ninan


Latest Episodes

Episode 34 – Biblical Immigrant Heroes: Ruth – With Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young
December 16, 2025

The Bible is replete with stories of men and women who were immigrants, like Abraham, Moses, Daniel, and Esther, to name a few. Their experience of living in foreign cultures and lands not only intersected with their personal spiritual formation but also

Episode 33 – Meet Eloise Benoit, A Haitian American Immigrant
December 02, 2025

Author and entrepreneur Eloise Benoit was born in Haiti and moved to the U.S. after a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake struck her country in 2010. The disaster was traumatic not only for her but also for everyone in Haiti. Eloise shares some details of her lif

Episode 32 – Storytelling and Spiritual Formation with Jenn Suen Chen
November 18, 2025

Jenn Suen Chen is a spiritual director, speaker, and leader in the area of spiritual formation and cross-cultural ministry. In this episode we discuss her latest book, Dim Sum & Faith: How Our Stories Form Our Souls. As an Asian American and a child o

Episode 31 – Remembering Refugees with Jenny Miedema
November 04, 2025

Our guest, Jenny Miedema, is the founder and director of Remember Ministries, a Canadian charity focused on encouraging and equipping churches to sponsor and welcome refugees to Canada. The name of the organization was inspired by this passage from Script

Episode 30 – Meet Pirkko Rytkonen, A Finnish Canadian Immigrant, Part 2
October 21, 2025

Our guest is author Pirkko Rytkonen who emigrated from Finland to Canada when she was a little girl. Raised in a Christian home, her immigrant experience intersected not only with her faith journey but also her unique love story. Her memoir,Between Us: T

Episode 29 – Meet Pirkko Rytkonen, A Finnish Canadian Immigrant, Part 1
October 07, 2025

In this episode, I chat with author Pirkko Rytkonen who emigrated from Finland to Canada when she was a little girl. Raised in a Christian home, her immigrant experience intersected not only with her faith journey but also her unique love story. Her memoi

Episode 28 – Lessons from an Untold Story in History
September 23, 2025

On todays episode, I talk with author Marie Chan about her book, Mamie Takes a Stand: The True Story of Mamie Tape, a Chinese American Girl’s Fight for School Rights. The book highlights an important part of American historysegregation in American

Episode 27 – Migration, God, and the Bible – With Alexis Busetti and Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
September 09, 2025

On todays episode I talk with Alexis Busetti and Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, about their latest Bible study, Migration: Experiencing God’s Care for Immigrants. This conversation is timely and relevant. Its also perfect for launching a new season of the po

Relaunching Far from Home on Setember 9th, 2025
September 07, 2025

Sometimes, hitting pause is the most powerful move you can make and thats exactly what I needed to do. I stepped back to focus on my mental and spiritual health. So now, Im returning with clearer vision, stronger purpose, and fresh content I cant wai

Episode 26 – A Conversation about Ethnic Loneliness with Prasanta Verma, Part 2
April 23, 2024

Our guest is Prasanta Verma, an Indian American, whos debut book titled, Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging (IVP Press), launched on April 16th, 2024. This is the second half of my conversation with Prasanta.