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Discipleship from Karma to Atonement
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[…] karma is the engine of their lives, always humming in the background, pushing their lives forward. Karma, however, is a cruel and unfeeling task master. It cares little for the sacrifices of time, money, and devotion of its servants. It offers only one guarantee, all you do will be repaid to you, eventually, and […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] SARA (although below the national level it is usually called the RAB), the state’s bureaucracy for religious affairs. The Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Association launched with little legitimacy among Protestants until China entered the Korean War in 1951. Mass campaigns then pressured Protestants to demonstrate their patriotism by simultaneously supporting the Korean War […]
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What I Learned through My Church Experiences in China, the US, and the World
[…] Coast for a short-term internship. As I heard this voice, my knitted brows became smooth again. I suddenly heard birds chirping around me. I started to see little boys and girls jumping and running with their dogs on the green grass. At that moment, I didn’t know how long I was going to stay […]
Wendy Blazes a Trail
<p>Nearly 10 years ago, at the age of 15, Wendy (Su Ying) joined our family here at Shepherd's Field Children's Village from her home orphanage in Fuzhou. Wendy was born with paraplegia, which left her unable to walk or actively move her body from the waist down. Regardless of her physical limitations, Wendy proved to be a […]
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] something was fishy (ha ha ha) because I had just seen carp that size swimming around in tubs at the market down the street. We talked a little more, and I eventually realized that while I understood my gesture to mean the length of the fish, head to tail, she assumed I was showing […]
Skills No Longer Needed
[…] that they do not belong in this multicultural society. When in a park, being aware at every moment of who is near my children and whether their phone is pointing at them. At the same time, monitoring the pulse of my children’s stress levels. Do they notice the attention on them and, today, do […]
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.
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?
[…] same direction.” Much of the concern overseas has been that the official church is rewriting the Bible or changing traditional theological concepts. In fact, in more than 20 years of studying the church in China, this is the closest that I’ve seen such efforts actually taking place. To be sure, since the late 1990s, […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
In 2023, the Chinese government issued new regulations on the registration of religious activity sites—the first update of these rules in over 15 years. What do they actually mean? How different are they from the earlier ones? What do they tell us about the church-state relationship in China today? What can we learn from […]
Rhythms of Spiritual Praxis as Discipleship from Karma to Atonement among Believers from a Tibetan Buddhist Background
[…] significant time attempting to share the truths of the gospel among Tibetan Buddhist peoples can attest to it being a difficult process. It is said that in 1892 Hudson Taylor said, “To make converts in Tibet is similar to going into a cave and trying to rob a lioness of her cubs.” Even after […]