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Dealing with Local Officials in a Changing China, Part 2
An Update
[…] in Beijing is blowing are certainly valuable exercises that cannot be ignored. National changes come and they do impact society. However, far more essential to the smooth, day-to-day functioning of our lives as foreigners in China is a deep and nuanced understanding of the smaller factors that determine bureaucratic decision-making. Increased cultural sensitivity in […]
Chinese Christianity Endures, Part 2
Learning from the 18th-Century Church Under Authoritarian Rule
[…] 1724 proscription are highlighted, revealing some important lessons for China workers striving to serve faithfully in New Era China. First, as Mungello makes quite clear, when the number of ordained expatriate priests and missionaries working in China decreased, Chinese Catholics stepped into the gap. In Sichuan this shift was undeniable: by 1800 there remained […]
Churches, Posters, and State Propaganda
Compliance and Appropriation
[…] held back by such troubles as laziness, hedonism, aggression, cruelty, greed, social class, evil, ignorance, and superstition. This overtly political messaging carried the Christian church of the day directly into contemporary political debates, offering the people of China a new and uniquely Christian vision of national salvation. To anyone living in China today, these […]
Lockdown Life
We were fortunate to be able to return from Spring Festival holiday to our home in China at the beginning of February, before travel became impossible. The day after our arrival, the local neighborhood committee called to ask about our travel itinerary and our health symptoms, and to inform us that we were to […]
Contextualization—A Necessity, Not an Option
In 1998 I attended a one- day training program in Beijing involving a well-known international evangelist and a group of 30 Chinese Christian leaders. By this time I had been studying and working in different parts of China for the better part of a decade, but had only been settled more permanently in country […]
Christmas Crowds in China | Part 3
Crowds of New Believers
<p>In years past I have marveled at the large numbers of people who flow through China’s churches every year at Christmas. I know of one urban church that hosts over 10,000 visitors during its six Christmas services. Each year I see the church building bursting at its seams, bodies crammed along every aisle and […]
Book Reviews
The Church in Henan
[…] Henan right from the arrival of the Nestorians in the Tang dynasty through the Catholic mission of the 17th and 18th centuries right up to the present day. The book is divided into five sections: 1. The Catholic Church in Henan; 2. Protestant Missions; 3. The Refiner’s Fire; 4. The Three-Self Church in Henan; […]
Worshiping in Chinese (3)
How Chinese Church Feeds Me
[…] that are representative of the kinds of things which I have learned while listening to Chinese pastors in the local church. On the Sunday before the Chinese Day of the Elderly (重阳节/敬老节), the service was centered on the theme of honoring fathers and mothers (孝敬父母). While this patently Chinese cultural theme seems far removed […]
Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference
[…] Party organization absorbed the government’s offices for religious work. Prior to 2018, the Party’s United Front Work Department set the major direction for religious affairs but left day-to-day governing work to government officials of the Religious Affairs Bureaus (RAB). This distinction gave a bit of bureaucratic leeway in how religions were handled. That changed […]
Being a Western Christian in the Global Church, Part 3
How You Can Serve the Chinese Church
[…] give us pause, and drive us to be more collaborative with local Christians in how we serve and contribute. 5. Serve humbly At the end of the day, God’s people serve in response to God’s call rather than in obedience to any earthly vision. This too requires great humility, as seasons of ministry come […]