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Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] go something like this: Chinese mom out playing with her young son: How old is your daughter? It’s vital to know this, by the way. The most common/polite way for the son to greet my daughter is to either call her jie jie (‘older sister’) or mei mei (‘younger sister’), so if the children […]
Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
[…] a continuing need. Swells in the Middle Kingdom ends a sobering piece on expatriates’ work in China with a challenge: that it is missionaries’ “endurance in the face of suffering that so profoundly demonstrates the power and truthfulness of their Christian faith.” I’m brought back to stories I have read about foreign Christians who […]
Reverse Culture Shock
[…] (ironically it’s easy to fit right in on this one due to reverse culture shock). Wealthy Australians posting their incredible and expensive, but unwanted, Christmas gifts on Facebook Marketplace. The way hardly any languages are taught at primary school level—and that the level is so minimal. How is Australia going to engage meaningfully with […]
Religious Policy Development in the PRC since 1949–An Overview
[…] or State Association for Religious Affairs (SARA) as the name was changed to in 1998, defines and regulates the activities of all "normal" religious bodies in China. 1 Under the SARA, the China Christian Council (CCC) functions as a regulatory organization over the Three Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), whereas the TSPM structures and regulates […]
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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
[…] have seen the need to balance care and prevention. The words (prevention messages) become more believable when they are fleshed out in practice (care). According to James 1:27, “True religion is to visit orphans and widows.” An international Christian agency has partnered with the official church to produce home-based care manuals for teaching believers […]
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?
[…] the late 1990s, under the late Bishop Ding Guangxun, the official churches began actively seeking to “reconstruct theology.” But as I discuss in my book, that campaign faced stiff resistance as young seminarians at the national seminary publicly opposed the campaign and were thrown out of the seminary as a consequence. Replace “Old Ideas…Inconsistent […]
Peacemaking in China
Beginnings
People shared their conflict stories, how they viewed face issues (saving, giving, and losing face), the hindering impact of face on reconciliation, and how God enabled them to set aside face to apologize and forgive…They have demonstrated that conflict resolution and relational restoration in face-saving cultures is possible!
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Observations of Dynamics in Families Affected by Autism
Lessons from China and the West
<p>Families affected by disability have a number of common emotions and experiences regardless of ethnicity or geographical location. The author looks at common concerns, struggles, and hopes that parents face when their child is diagnosed with a disability and specifically, with autism. He also alerts us to some of the programs, helps, and therapies […]
February 21, 2013
[…] more Christians in China were persecuted last year as compared with 2011, continuing a trend of increasing persecution that goes back to at least 2007. On their face these numbers appear to be cause for serious alarm, and the China Aid report has in fact spawned headlines decrying the beginning of the end of […]