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The War against Cults in China
[…] thousands outside the very gates of the top leaders’ residential compound. China has been experiencing a major revival of religious faith—especially Buddhism and Protestant Christianity—since the Mao days when all religious expression was completely suppressed. However, at the same time there has been an upsurge in cults, many of them quite bizarre. This is […]
Challenges and Opportunities for the Pulpit in China’s Urban House Churches
[…] Chinese people, leaving only a shell. In this world of flashing lights and vibrant distractions, people are like the walking dead. Western fast-food culture, along with “ cheap grace,” is attacking people’s hearts. Some churches have become like supermarkets, where a donation buys a few hours of enjoyment; others have become like clubs that […]
Dealing with Local Officials in a Changing China
An Update
[…] paper will address some of the current factors impacting government relations before providing a few suggestions for building and maintaining healthy official relationships. Along the way, a number of common misperceptions will be highlighted in the hopes that increased clarity will contribute to increased effectiveness in service. The following discussion will focus on the […]
Community and Witness
[…] friendly, peaceful and happy our workplace environment seems to be: whether delivering water bottles, doing a news story for a local paper, or collecting payments for train tickets these same expressions of wonder and envy have been expressed to us time and time again. I recall numerous neighbors marveling at foreign children's ability to […]
Re-thinking What Affects Effectiveness
[…] and headed to work this morning, my mind was fully occupied going over a list of issues that needed to be taken care of. On this particular day, most of them involved trying to get officials to give permits they were hesitant to grant. We had been working on most of these issues for […]
Worshiping in Chinese (2)
Why I Go to Chinese Church
[…] and in their proper context through my participation in Chinese worship services. Even without language skills, much can be observed (formality, preferred tunes, importance of various holy days, etc…). The numerical expansion of the Chinese church, as well as the growth in the church's human and financial resources means that the days of expatriates […]
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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 […]
Going Deeper
Serious Tools for Serious Study
[…] Translation. Next, each word is parsed listing its grammatical characteristics according to both an English set of abbreviations and a Chinese set of abbreviations. Finally, the Strong’s number for each Greek word is listed. This makes for a VERY thick book, but it also enables careful readers to examine New Testament syntax in great […]
Impressions on Returning to Post-COVID China
[…] of an expatriate working legally for one company choosing to invest their own money in a different company in China. On another occasion I spent half a day at the provincial branch of the Bank of China helping a foreign tourist exchange a thousand US dollars; the bank was requiring overseas employment and tax […]
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 […]