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An Unwelcomed Journey Out of China
On January 23, 2020, my family and I arrived in Thailand from China for three weeks of vacation. Chinese officials locked down Wuhan on our first day in Thailand. We never returned to China. On March 31, 2022, after nearly 12 years of partnership, we exited our organization. The 26 months that elapsed between […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] the U.S., Chinese party-state governance operates much more on informal norms of trust and personal connections (guanxi in Chinese). This means that policies that are “on the books” may be bent, ignored or violated altogether by Protestant association leaders or pastors who have developed a relationship of trust with their RAB counterparts. This is […]
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A Look Back to Look Forward
A Decade of ChinaSource
[…] an update on China’s growing urban church that is taking a variety of forms. In addition, we introduce you to the new ChinaSource website and recommend the 2010 Prayer Calendar. Throughout the years, ChinaSource has provided a variety of resources designed to aid and enhance your China service. As one of those resources, the […]
A Train Ride through 4 Provinces
[…] the time. Some catch up on sleep while others engage in rowdy rounds of cards with fellow passengers. Some turn their attention to movies on their smart phones while others stare out the window for hours, lost in thought. Andi and I fill the day with a mixture of reading, language study, conversation, napping, […]
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, […]
Seeing Trees for the First Time
[…] a doctor so she and the children joined us for the drive back. Several newcomers piled into the truck as well, along with a small tree. Our numbers swelled to fourteen, a cramped but perfect ending to one of those experiences that cause me to look upward and shake my head with awed disbelief. […]
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 […]
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.
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] you can come to China and impress everyone by saying you caught a fish THIS BIG. “Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned” was originally published at small town laowai on May 8, 2015. Header image courtesy of Traffic (are you ready?) by Marianna, on Flickr Text images courtesy of small town laowai
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Chinese Culture and the Ethos of Suffering in the Chinese Church
[…] His wife had five children and he was not home for the birth of any one of them. Looking back on the influence of his ministry, conservative numbers would place 100,000 Chinese as having been converted as a result of his labors.15 Watchman Nee In the concluding paragraph of The Spiritual Man, Volume One, […]