Happy last day of 2024! While we’re looking forward to 2025, we also want to remember the highlights of the last 12 months, with a couple of bonus articles. Enjoy!
Chinese Christians and the Chinese Zodiac
By Jeshurun, February 9, 2024
How should Chinese Christians view the zodiac and the year of the dragon? Pastor Jeshurun kicked off a series on that very topic with a thoughtful biblical and historical analysis, examining the ways Christians can look at our participation in the surrounding culture.
Just Listen
By Brent Fulton, February 28, 2024
While foreign workers want to help their Chinese brothers and sisters to spread of the gospel, their methods do not always work. In this meditation, readers are encouraged to listen with open hearts to their Chinese colleagues. What might Christians accomplish together for the kingdom of God if we listened?
Homeschooling in China: A Growing Movement
By Red Lily, January 22, 2024
As Chinese Christian parents grapple with how to raise their children in the faith, a growing number are choosing to educate their kids at home. It’s a difficult decision to make and one that families should approach with prayer and discernment.
Listening to the Echoes: A Post Lausanne IV Reflection
By Xiaoli Yang, Oct 18, 2024
As Christians, we strive for the unity that Christ prayed for in John 17:21—that we may be one as Christ and the Father are one. In practice, we are constantly working out how to manifest this unity in diverse circumstances. After the fourth Lausanne Congress, Xiaoli Yang contemplated the many challenges in unity and encouraged readers to listen for God’s voice in the echoes.
Be sure to read her beautiful and poetic follow-up piece, “Divine Dance.”
Dragons: Friend or Foe?
By Brent Pinkall, March 27, 2024
While Chinese culture paints the dragon as an auspicious creature, Western culture typically casts it as the villain. What is the biblical view? In this post, Brent Pinkall gives a carefully nuanced view of the many facets of dragons as depicted in Scripture.
Christian School Education in China
By Bridge Education Services, April 9, 2024
Due to China’s strict education environment, most Christian parents choose to keep their kids in the public school system. But what happens to the kids who are homeschooled or go to small, church-sponsored co-ops? This article takes a deep look at the dilemmas families face, as well as possible new models that are emerging to fill the gaps.
Homeward Bound: A Christian’s Return to China
By Rex Chen, June 12, 2024
Running, staying, returning—what is the best Christian response to the ever-tightening policies in China? The author of this post argues forcefully that Chinese Christians with a Western education have an obligation to return home and serve the vast need for the people of China to hear the gospel.
Reflections on Lausanne’s Fourth Congress on World Evangelism
By Andrew Lee, October 8, 2024
The Fourth Lausanne Congress brought together 5,200 participants from more than 200 countries in Incheon, South Korea. Pastor Andrew Lee shares some of the significant factors and moments of the congress, with lots of resources to explore.
Chinese Upbringing and US Culture
By Sydney Holliday, July 10, 2024
Growing up in China as the daughter of English teachers brought not only challenges but also many blessings. Sydney Holliday shows us both the joys and confusion inherent in being bi-cultural. She ends with a beautiful prayer for Chinese youth,
Pray that the youth in China can have the one true hope and strength. This beautiful generation holds the power of their country’s future. Many of these teenagers struggle with depression and the pressure of the gaokao. Most of them live lives that are left empty, validating their worth by their awards and ranking in their class. The never-ending competition leads to hopelessness. Pray that the Chinese Gen Z can find their true meaning and identity, that their worth would not be in their achievements, but in a higher force. Pray that people can be called to be the salt and light, to mentor the soon-to-be leaders of China, leading this great generation to walk strong in faith.
From Darkness to Light
By Gregory Wu, October 15, 2024
It’s almost impossible to adequately summarize this intensely moving testimony. The writer documents his atheistic upbringing, the depression and anxiety that caused, his turn to substances to cope, and finally, his dramatic call from God to leave it all behind and follow Christ.
Bonus Articles
The Global Chinese Diaspora Today
By Jeanne Wu, March 11, 2024
This is the lead article of the spring CSQ, so it’s not a blog post. It’s very much worth revisiting, however, as it’s a fantastic overview of the Chinese diaspora—historical and political reasons why people leave and how Christians can help them while also sharing the gospel.
Can I Still Get a Bible in China?
By Joann Pittman and Peter Bryant, December 22, 2023
We published this one at the end of 2023, and it’s been one of the most-read articles of 2024. People often ask—can someone get a Bible in China? And how? This article lays out the answers to these questions and includes some fascinating reading on the history of translating the Bible into Chinese.
Image credit: Imtimphoto via Adobe Stock.
Rachel Anderson
Rachel Anderson serves as the Assistant Content Manager at ChinaSource. Though she has never been to China, her ancestors were missionaries in East Asia and passed on a deep love and respect for those cultures. Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their five delightful children. View Full Bio
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