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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
The winter 2022 issue of ChinaSource Quarterly 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.
Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
What can we learn from the recent conference on religious work? A comparison with the 2018 conference helps tease out key points.
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?
[…] Three Self Patriotic Movement association together with the China Christian Council, gathered to discuss a five-year plan for 2023–2027? Do China’s official churches typically have five-year plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? In this analysis, I compared the 2023–2027 plan1 with the previous plan2 for 2018–2022 […]
Lead Article
The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] organized conferences to pressure grassroots pastors to toe the shifting national CCP line. By the Cultural Revolution’s outbreak in 1966, all churches were shuttered and Three-Self pastors, like other party-state officials, were forced to criticize each other and then were sent to the countryside or factories to do manual labor. This brief history explains […]
Supporting Article
How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] ultimate responsibility for whatever happens in that (provincial, city, district or village) jurisdiction. So, for example, the vertical line of authority running from Beijing to a city like Shanghai is fragmented by the authority of the Shanghai party secretary and his party committees. Everything that happens within the Shanghai jurisdiction is the responsibility of […]
Be A Better Dad Today
A Book Review
[…] spanned more than 30 years and took place in different societies and cultures around the world. On the one hand, he determined that he would not be like his deadbeat earthly father; but on the other, he saw in his “Chinese father” a God-fearing man who cared for, guided, and provided for his family, […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] from the last question and work backward, from the larger context to the issue of religions. Since Xi Jinping was selected to be China’s top leader in 2012, the People’s Republic of China has entered the End of Era, as a recent book by scholar Carl Minzner put it.1 Students of Chinese politics and […]
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] I was having a conversation with my Malaysian friend, and we started talking about how Malaysia has a lot of British influence. “We drive on the right like they do,” my friend explained.
“Wait, what?” I thought I had heard her wrong, or that she had misspoken. “You mean you drive on the left like they […]
When Your Phone Becomes a Substitute for True Relationships
[…] substitutes become mere junk food. Another metaphor—we as humans were created to need food. When we are filled with healthy food, we don’t run after junk food. Likewise, these internet games are a substitute for true relational connections. Wenjun: Is it possible that these substitutes are more fun? Jiang Peirong: In order to engage […]
Islam has the largest number of under-30 believers in China?
[…] and the World Christian Database). The current study seems to suggest Catholics also have about 22% (slightly under Muslims) of their membership under age 30. So Catholics would likewise have slightly fewer people in absolute numbers: 22% of 20 million = 5 million. But Protestants number 84 million. If even 10% (half) were under 30, […]