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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
The winter 2022 issue of <em>ChinaSource Quarterly</em> offers perspectives like a plane dropping from thirty thousand feet to ground level, as they shift from high-level and mildly optimistic…to close up, personal, and much more pessimistic. Together, they offer helpful insight on what’s happening in China after ten years of…political leadership by Xi Jinping.
Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
[…] by where they appeared in the photos. For religion in China, reading boring reports from the latest Communist Party conference on religious “work” feels a little bit like this, a little like reading tea leaves. It’s also hard not to fall asleep when the language is so rigid and repetitive and so many phrases […]
Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization
What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?
[…] Three Self Patriotic Movement association together with the China Christian Council, gathered to discuss a five-year plan for 2023–2027? Do China’s official churches typically have five-year plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? In this analysis, I compared the 2023–2027 plan2 with the previous plan3 for 2018–2022 […]
Lead Article
The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] organized conferences to pressure grassroots pastors to toe the shifting national CCP line. By the Cultural Revolution’s outbreak in 1966, all churches were shuttered and Three-Self pastors, like other party-state officials, were forced to criticize each other and then were sent to the countryside or factories to do manual labor. This brief history explains […]
Missions from China Today
A Reader Responds to the 2020 Summer Issue of CSQ
[…] has been a stellar example of how to stifle change! Still, I’ve met workers sent from the Wenzhou area to establish churches in the Sichuan area. Just like (most) western global servants, they learned the local language and gained the respect of people. The food in Wenzhou is not spicy, but one brother from […]
Be A Better Dad Today
A Book Review
[…] spanned more than 30 years and took place in different societies and cultures around the world. On the one hand, he determined that he would not be like his deadbeat earthly father; but on the other, he saw in his “Chinese father” a God-fearing man who cared for, guided, and provided for his family, […]
Supporting Article
How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] ultimate responsibility for whatever happens in that (provincial, city, district or village) jurisdiction. So, for example, the vertical line of authority running from Beijing to a city like Shanghai is fragmented by the authority of the Shanghai party secretary and his party committees. Everything that happens within the Shanghai jurisdiction is the responsibility of […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] out the previously existing articles but also encompassing far more aspects of religious practice. In terms of political interactions between church and Party-state, ambiguous terms in Chapter 1 Article 3 still include the protection of “normal religious activities” and of “legitimate” interests of religious sites and citizens. Further, organizations and individuals in these venues […]
Chinese Christians Pray following the China Eastern Airlines Crash
In response to last week’s tragic loss of life, Christians in China are praying. One noted, “. . . believers, they pray for peace in Ukraine, for the domestic epidemic, and now they are praying for the plane crash. These are painful things, just like the recent weather, shrouded in gloom.”
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] I was having a conversation with my Malaysian friend, and we started talking about how Malaysia has a lot of British influence. “We drive on the right like they do,” my friend explained.</p> <p>“Wait, what?” I thought I had heard her wrong, or that she had misspoken. “You mean you drive on the <em>left </em>like they […]