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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works

The author helps us to understand the workings of the religious affairs bureaucracy first by following the story of an aspiring pastor, then by viewing them historically. The Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Association, China Christian Council, Religious Affairs Bureau and United Front Work Department are all discussed along with how they interact, lines of authority and the role of guanxi.

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Professionalism and Witness in TESOL

[…] loves all our students better than we ever could. Notes ^ Baurain, Bradley. (2007). “Christian witness and respect for persons.” Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 6, 201-219. ^ Borg, Simon. (2003). “Teacher cognition in language teaching: A review of research on what language teachers think, know, believe, and do.” Language Teaching, 36, 81–109. […]

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Book Review: Schism

Seventh-Day Adventism in Post-Denominational China

[…] Pond. The study examines a recent case in which the divided Adventists were able to cooperate in a legal case which was ultimately decided against them in 2015. They appealed to the provincial court in 2016, but they were denied and the cooperation between the factions dissipated. The study displays the academic rigor and […]

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A New China and a New Catholic Church

At this crossroads, perhaps Wu Jingxiong points the way forward… In an era when conflict threatens to dehumanize us all, Wu Jingxiong’s Christian humanism remains to this day a beacon of hope.

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Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing

A Book Review

Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing (The Gospel for the Cultural Chinese) by I’Ching Thomas. Graceworks Private Limited, 2018, 126 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 978-981-11-5718-9. Available on Amazon and from Graceworks. Augustine stated that “All truth is God’s truth,” and in I’Ching Thomas’s book, Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing, the author takes this to […]

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Passing the Faith to the Next Generation

Reaching American-Born/Second-Generation Chinese

Sam George in “Chinese Christians of Chicagoland: The Experience of One American City” states, “One of the surprising finds was a cluster of nearly 10,000 Chinese students in the Urbana-Champaign region without any Chinese church in the university town.” George continues by exhorting the American Chinese church to reach out to the generation of […]

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The Shaping of Christianity in China Today

A Book Review

Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China (Studies in Chinese Christianity) by Li Ma and Jin Li. Pickwick Publications, 2017, 226 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 153263460; ISBN-13: 978-1532634604; $27 at Amazon.  The following two book reviews give Eastern and Western perspectives on a recent publication that looks at the external […]

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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?

[…] plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? In this analysis, I compared the 2023–2027 plan3 with the previous plan4 for 2018–2022 to see what’s new and what is the same. The most important conclusion is that the TSPM/CCC now lays far greater emphasis on political loyalty to […]

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The Never Ending March

A Book Review

The Never Ending March: China’s Religious Policy and the Catholic Church by Sergio Ticozzi, preface by Stephen Baskerville. Hong Kong: Chorabooks, 2018, 183 pages. Shortly after the provisional accord on the nomination of bishops in China was announced by the Vatican and Beijing, Chorabooks released The Never Ending March.  Now, two years later, with […]