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Where to Work in the Diaspora?
[…] does not exclude other decision-making factors, such as population size, the extent of flows of influence back and forth from the diaspora location and the homeland, the number of returnees to the homeland, or the availability of local mission resources which may be in the form of local partner churches, the local majority world […]
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 […]
Reverse Culture Shock
[…] activities. We became used to it being a time when the whole country stops for a holiday. But now, because we are white and in Australia, our phones are not filled with celebratory messages and photos nor are we welcomed into the celebration. Here it’s a celebration for the Asians in the community, or […]
Lead Article
The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] both official churches and house churches. Not only is the Xi government attempting to forcibly implement religious policy by eradicating house churches, it is also constricting the number of public worship spaces in Three-Self churches, and even announcing efforts to transform the meaning and practices of traditional Protestant worship through the “Sinicization” campaign. The […]
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.4 Students of Chinese politics and […]
Supporting Article
How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] way to grasp how the religious affairs bureaucracy works is to view it historically, which is especially useful as the structure today is a holdover from the 1950s. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, it organized all non-communists who wished to cooperateor collaborateinto a “united front,” by which allies could be […]
Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
[…] the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to protect their congregations and lost their lives as a result. Swells is right, of course, that a focus on the numbers of converts was always misplaced; the focus should always be on the faithfulness and integrity of those who do convert, not on whether they are numerous […]
Are You Ready for the Diaspora?
For many ministries this time of increased religious restriction in the Chinese mainland has sparked a heightened interest in the Chinese diaspora. Here are four essential questions for your sending group to consider.
Editorials
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 […]
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