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7 Trends for Foreign Christians in China
[…] sought to witness for Christ as professionals in education, business, or humanitarian endeavors, or they have served the indigenous church directly, primarily in the area of training. Today the maturing of the church, along with heightened official suspicion toward foreign involvement in China, are giving rise to new modes of engagement. Here are seven […]
The Coronavirus: A Shared Narrative
The COVID-19 virus is a stark reminder of how China’s comprehensive integration into the world community can affect us all, whether or not we live in the mainland. This integration is seen not only in the central role China plays in complex global supply chains or as a major market for everything from soy […]
Seeing Things Differently
In her response to my recent Christianity Today article about the narratives foreign observers often use to describe the church in China, Hannah Nation of China Partnership takes issue with the idea that these characterizations—in particular the “persecuted church” narrative—represent attempts by foreign Christians to superimpose their political constructs onto China. Nation points out […]
You Can’t Do That in China!
[…] reasonably conclude that we have come full circle. The persecuted church narrative that seemed to aptly describe the situation in the 1980s is again the most common narrative today. Yet the church itself is at a very different place. Whereas the struggling church in the 1980s could legitimately be described as being in survival mode, […]
Book Reviews
Redeemed by Fire
The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
[…] neglects important questions of relationship—relationship to the early indigenous church prior to 1949, which laid the foundations for much of what we see of Christianity in China today, and relationship to the complex socio-political milieu out of which it was born. Lian Xi, a professor of history at Hanover College, makes an important contribution […]
Editorials
A Second Look at China’s Urbanization
[…] rapid urbanization has another look as well. Ten years ago Pudong was little more than farmland and low-rise housing across the river from China’s quintessential metropolis, Shanghai. Today Pudong is a showcase of China’s economic success and, with its new airport and state-of-the-art communications facilities, an important interface with the rest of the world. […]
The Evolving Narratives
[…] on the church continued to increase, new training entities, sending bases, and cooperative relationships with international organizations came into being as the Chinese missions thrust gained momentum. Today the persecuted church narrative has once again become dominant, particularly in media reporting on China. Although many have commented that the situation now is very similar […]
Space, Place, and Face
The Transformation of China’s Church
[…] past decades, to the cities. Migrant peasant Christians have brought new faith communities to the cities, while a spiritual movement among intellectuals spawned urban fellowships that are today taking their place at the forefront of the church’s development. Returnee Christians who have studied or worked overseas come back to major cities and augment the […]
Who Moved My Church?
[…] global church landscape has become increasingly unfamiliar territory. Spencer Johnson’s 1998 parable about confronting change in the business world asked the question, “Who moved my cheese?”3 Evangelicals today may well be asking, “Who moved my church?” In the year 1910, 93 percent of Christians lived in North American and Europe. By 2013 that number […]
Editorials
These Next Ten Years
[…] challenges that lie ahead in the next. Unlike China of the late 1990s, still a question mark in the minds of much of the watching world, China today is a bold exclamation point punctuating the headlines of seemingly every news story, from global finance to global warming, international sport, fashion, culture and everything else […]